Leadsom came second with 66, followed by Gove on 48 and Crabb on 34.
“…with Michael as Prime Minister we’d go to war with at least three countries at once…”
An awesome responsibility will greet the eventual winner. The new Prime Minister must rise to the greatest national challenge since that which confronted Churchill.
“I think that I’m somebody with a strong grasp of some of the social and economic divisions in our country and with a sense of direction for the future.”
Indeed, the former leads the latter by a nose. Crabb’s support is low, Fox’s has collapsed, and Gove is becalmed.
Arron Banks’s Leave.EU has endorsed Leadsom, while Vote Leave has given a bump to Gove.
The case for Gove. His candidature is the one best placed not only to ensure that Britian quits the EU but that social mobility is boosted.
Continental Europe needs the financial services of London just as much, if not more, than London needs its financial exports to Continental Europe.
“If my sole ambition was place and position I would have declared my candidacy last week”
What evidence is there that you can increase the Party’s electoral reach? Would you bring back liberal interventionism? Would you appoint George Osborne to your Cabinet?
An under-reported contributor to this week’s events is that they aren’t getting enough sleep.
Fox looks marooned. Gove is fighting to stay afloat…and the wind is in the sails of the Energy Minister.
“I have to say I never thought I’d be in this position. I did not want it – indeed I did almost everything I could not to be a candidate for the leadership of this party.”
The negotiations will not require decisions of any higher magnitude than the military or security-related decisions that a Prime Minister must regularly make.