
LISTEN: Iain Dale’s interview with Leadsom
Our columnist is interviewing each of the Conservative leadership candidates on his LBC show – here’s the third.
Our columnist is interviewing each of the Conservative leadership candidates on his LBC show – here’s the third.
Leadsom threw such caution to the winds and promised Britain will leave the EU on 31st October.
“Over the last three years, politics has failed dismally…Leaving the EU on the 31st of October is for me a hard red line.”
We apologise for not being swept away by the mania for new announcements that infests this leadership contest.
We also have the result from yesterday evening’s ’92 Group hustings – in which Johnson scooped almost half the vote.
So no more dropouts after Sam Gyimah’s departure earlier this afternoon. The first ballot will be held on Thursday.
The former Leader of the House responds to the ConHome audience.
He is set to cakewalk this contest if his colleagues in the Commons put his name before the members.
Each week, we’ll be summarising the announcements made by those vying to succeed May as Prime Minister.
The vocation of the front-runner is not to mess up. And he hasn’t. Indeed, he has picked up support – and upped the pace.
Plus: Sympathy for the Downing Street SpAds. The case for chemical castration. And: my interviews with the Tory leadership candidates.
There is nobody else running in this contest who understands the EU quite as well as Andrea does.
Incrementalism might be the only way through Brexit. Gove appears to be toying with this very idea.
He leaves the field as the 1922 Committee agrees and announces rules for the conduct of the election.
None are willing to admit that an election is likely, and set out how on earth they would win it with Brexit undelivered.