Suella Braverman is not going to run to be the subsequent chief of the Conservative Get together – saying she’s been branded “mad, bad and dangerous”.
The previous house secretary had been anticipated to throw her hat within the ring however stated she had chosen to not regardless of having the backing she wanted earlier than the two.30pm deadline on Monday.
“Although I’m grateful to the 10 MPs who wanted to nominate me for the leadership, getting on to the ballot is not enough,” she wrote in an article for The Telegraph.
“There is, for good or for ill, no point in someone like me running to lead the Tory Party when most of the MPs disagree with my diagnosis and prescription” of what went improper and the way to repair it.
Ms Braverman stated the get together’s disastrous election end result was all the way down to failures on migration, taxes and “transgender ideology”.
“I’ve been branded mad, bad and dangerous enough to see that the Tory Party does not want to hear this. And so I will bow out here,” she added.
Earlier this month, Ms Braverman spoke on the Nationwide Conservatism Convention in Washington DC the place she blamed “liberal Conservatives” for the get together’s common election defeat.
She has additionally warned that the Tories should not turn into “a collection of fanatical, irrelevant, centrist cranks”.
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Whereas internet hosting an LBC Radio phone-in programme final week, Ms Braverman stated she would vote for Donald Trump if she was a US citizen as a result of “the world will be safer” with him as president.
Her announcement got here as shadow housing secretary Kemi Badenoch turned the sixth individual to enter the management race with a pledge to inform voters the reality.
Writing in The Instances, Ms Badenoch stated the get together deserved to lose within the election as a result of it was “unsure of who we were, what we were for and how we could build a new country”.
She wrote: “The country will not vote for us if we don’t know who we are or what we want to be. That is why I am seeking the leadership of the Conservative Party to renew our movement and, with the support of the British people, to get it to work for our country again.”
Ms Badenoch joins James Cleverly, Tom Tugendhat, Robert Jenrick and Mel Stride, who declared final week, and Priti Patel, who launched her bid on the weekend, within the race.
