Resist ‘idiotic’ move to the right in leadership race, top Tories urge

Resist ‘idiotic’ move to the right in leadership race, top Tories urge

Senior figures tell the party not to rush into choosing a new leader, citing 2005 and David Cameron as a successful precedent

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Senior Tories are pleading with the party to avoid the “weapons-grade idiocy” of a further drift to the right, amid a concerted and organised effort from grandees to stop a kneejerk leadership contest.

Figures from Rishi Sunak’s cabinet, prominent MPs who lost their seats and former prime minister David Cameron are among those involved in working to secure a repeat of the 2005 contest, which eventually saw Cameron installed as leader seven months after an election defeat.

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