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Former minister Tom Tugendhat has apologised for the “disrespect and double standards” of previous Conservative governments as he made his appeal to become the next party leader.
Speaking from Westminster at his campaign launch, Mr Tugendhat said he had “witnessed the recent political trauma” within the Tory ranks “with a combination of depression and anger”, and saw “duty give way to ego”.
But he insisted under his leadership, the party would “bring back an honest, responsible state – one that serves you, leads the changes that we need and acts on its word”.
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Mr Tugendhat is one of six candidates vying to lead the Conservatives following their large scale loss to Labour in July’s general election. The others are Kemi Badenoch, James Cleverly, Robert Jenrick, Dame Priti Patel and Mel Stride.
Ms Badenoch and Mr Cleverly both held their launches on Monday, with the former also criticising the previous government – in which she served – and the latter pledging to bring back some of their politics, including the Rwanda deportation scheme.
Later on Tuesday, all six will take part of a hustings in parliament ahead of the first round of voting by MPs on Wednesday, which will see the person with the least votes eliminated from the race.
A further round of voting will take place next Monday to get the ballot down to four, and they will face an onstage hustings during the Conservative Party conference at the end of the month.
After another vote by MPs, the wider membership will then choose their leader from the last two standing, with the result expected to…
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