Rishi Sunak’s campaign for the Tory leadership was dealt another blow last night as Tom Tugendhat endorsed Liz Truss.
The chairman of the foreign affairs select committee, writing in The Times, said that Truss was the only candidate ready to become prime minister and unite the party. Tugendhat said her plans to cut taxes were “founded on true Conservative principles”. It was “not right”, he added, that the tax burden should be about to rise to the highest level for 70 years when people are facing Christmas with “dread”.
Tugendhat’s endorsement is significant as he is a leading figure in the One Nation group of centrist Tory MPs, and popular with Tory party members.
Tom Tugendhat said Truss was the only candidate to unite the Conservatives
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His backing will bolster Truss’s claim that she can unite
