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Top Tories ramp up campaign to replace Theresa May as Boris remains favourite


Senior Tories are on manoeuvres to replace Theresa May as Prime Minister.

A string of party heavyweights set out their stalls with high-profile media appearances over the weekend.

But Boris Johnson remained the frontrunner, with a Deltapoll study placing him on 15% support – a full nine points ahead of nearest rival Sajid Javid.

Michael Gove was in third place on 5%.

And the Sunday Mirror revealed today that Iain Duncan Smith was considering a second turn at being Tory leader.

Treasury Secretary Liz Truss, polling at just 1%, gave an interview calling for the party to “modernise”.

Boris Johnson is still in pole position

Gove is in third place

 

She told the Sunday Times: “Sometimes politics can be in danger of being managerial. The Conservative Party needs to re-modernise.

“We need to be optimistic, aspirational. We need to participate in the battle of ideas. We haven’t been doing.”

And she said the £27 billion of extra funds Philip Hammond promised if Theresa May’s deal is passed should be spent slashing taxes for businesses and young people.

Dominic Raab

 

Former Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab, on 2% in the poll, set out his plans to tackle knife crime with “robust policing” and community work.

He also attempted to outflank hostile competition by addressing claims he used a “gagging order”, to silence a former colleague who accused him of bullying.

Mr Raab told The Sunday Times the claims, which date back to 2007 before he was an MP, were “completely false”.

Allies suggested they were being deployed as part of a “smear campaign”.

Meanwhile, friends of Health Secretary Matt Hancock – a former Treasury minister – were talking him up as “the only cabinet minister who can properly count”.

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