Are you too running for the Tory leadership? Power is lying in the streets, and every Tory MP you have never heard of is wondering whether to pick it up. Never served in the cabinet? Fear not, neither have many of the party’s currently declared candidates.
There is the first rank of possible contenders, the ones of whom you may have heard – Rishi Sunak, Sajid Javid, Ben Wallace, Liz Truss, Nadhim Zahawi; all of whom were in the cabinet last week and whom I list in that order deliberately – and there is the second rank, from outside cabinet – Penny Mordaunt, Tom Tugendhat, Jeremy Hunt, and Steve Baker.
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