🔴Sajid Javid is the latest big name to endorse Rishi Sunak, joining the likes of Dominic Raab, the former deputy prime minister, and Sir Gavin Williamson, a former chief whip and education secretary.
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Sajid Javid previously had a dig at Rishi Sunak and argued for "a new approach" to the economy in his endorsement of Liz Truss
But today Javid gets behind Sunak - saying the Tories must "recover our reputation for stewardship" and move on from "mistakes"
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🗣James Corden has said he did nothing wrong in the row over his allegedly “abusive” behaviour towards staff at a New York City restaurant
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⚡️Conservative leadership contest: Who's backing whom?
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🔴The current scores on the doors are as follows:
Rishi Sunak: 67
Boris Johnson: 40
Penny Mordaunt (declared): 17
Sky News and the Times have both reported in the past few minutes that Sajid Javid, the former chancellor, is to endorse Rishi Sunak
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Read the full analysis on the Conservative leadership contest here ⤵️
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🔵At the opposite end of the country are the 'Blue Wall' MPs, so called because they are sitting in usually safe Tory seats at threat from the Lib Dems.
This includes Jacob Rees-Mogg
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🔴Red Wallers are the new clutch of Conservative MPs elected to ‘Red Wall’ seats across the North and Midlands.
They owe their political careers to Mr Johnson
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✅The One Nation caucus were involved in the ousting of Mr Johnson, and subsequently supported Mr Sunak
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✅Brexit-supporting MPs on the Right of the party largely supported Ms Truss in the last leadership contest.
Many Brexiteers have tough views on issues including illegal migration and the culture wars
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❓What are the Tory tribes?
🔴Brexiteers
🔴One Nationeers
🔴Red Wallers
🔴Blue Wallers
Find out more here ⬇️
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👉Penny Mordaunt
Has confirmed she will run, with 16 current backers including Maria Miller and Derek Thomas
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👉Rishi Sunak
Supporters claim he will run, with 66 current backers including Crispin Blunt and Julie Marson
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👉Boris Johnson
Mr Johnson is halfway there on his quest to win the support of the 100 Conservative MPs he needs to enter the contest
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🔴Tory MPs are endorsing prospective prime ministers after Liz Truss's dramatic resignation on Thursday.
👉Here’s who’s backing who for the leadership contest
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🗣Gloria Hunniford is just a “token” older woman on television, Carol Smillie has said
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🗣A Cambridge college master is engulfed in a transgender row with professors after boycotting a “hateful” gender-critical speaker
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🔴Steve Bannon has been sentenced to four months in prison and must pay a $6,500 fine after being found in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with the investigation into the January 6 insurrection
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🗣White, male lawyers should think twice before talking about sport at work to avoid excluding women, Britain’s second most senior judge has said
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🗣A professor cancelled because of her comments on trans rights has said that she will never work in a British University again because there is no freedom of speech
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🔴America's military must be ready to respond to a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan that could come before the end of this year, the head of the US Navy has said.
Read more: telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202
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🗣In their latest look at the way we live now, our columnist duo contemplate the use of redundant stock phrases by politicians on the Today programme
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🔴Former Cabinet minister Andrea Leadsom has backed Penny Mordaunt to be the new Tory leader, citing her “compassion” and “determination”.
Mordaunt has held talks with Jeremy Hunt and assured him he can stay on as Chancellor if she becomes prime minister
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🔴Vladimir Putin fired a sniper rifle during a visit to a training camp for mobilised men on Thursday, a trip that was supposed to project confidence in his military
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I’ve been encouraged by support from colleagues who want a fresh start, a united party and leadership in the national interest.
I’m running to be the leader of the Conservative Party and your Prime Minister - to unite our country, deliver our pledges and win the next GE.
#PM4PM
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New: Boris Johnson has been personally calling Tory MPs from his holiday in a bid to secure their backing, has been told.
He promised one MP that there would be a "different culture" in Downing Street if he becomes PM again.
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The Treasury raked in a record amount in death duties in the first half of this tax year as grieving families were stung by frozen inheritance tax allowances and higher property prices
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NEW: Some Rishi Sunak backers are floating a jaw-dropper… offer Boris the role of Home Secretary.
Two Tory MPs who have endorsed Sunak tell they support the idea. Their argument: Would help win the race + unite the party.
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🎾Simona Halep has been provisionally suspended from tennis after failing a drugs test at the US Open
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🎥The veteran actor talks Logan Roy, toxic Hollywood and his plans for his own 'succession'
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🔴Allies of Boris Johnson are "confident" the former prime minister can reach the threshold of 100 Conservative MPs needed to progress in the leadership contest
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Silvio Berlusconi was reportedly told to “keep his mouth shut” by Italy’s prime minister-in-waiting, Giorgia Meloni, as she prepared to formalise the country’s most right-wing government since the Second World War.
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🔴Public borrowing surged to hit £20bn last month as economists warned the deficit would hit £200bn this year, more than double official forecasts
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Downing Street said it was the convention that all outgoing Prime Ministers issue such lists
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Combined with her shortness of tenure, it could make any Truss resignation honours the most controversial since Harold Wilson’s infamous lavender list in 1976
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Although no names have yet been discussed, Ms Truss could choose to reward senior donors who helped fund her successful leadership campaign, as well as aides who have been by her side throughout her parliamentary career...
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It raises the possibility that key members of the Truss campaign could be given knighthoods or peerages, despite the former PM only having been at the top of politics for a matter of weeks
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Downing Street said on Friday that it was the convention that all outgoing Prime Ministers issue such lists
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Liz Truss is set to draw up a resignation honours list - despite only having been in the job for six weeks, the Telegraph can disclose
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⚡️Ben Wallace rules himself out and 'leans towards' backing Boris Johnson
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