Ms May said Britain needed to have a clear negotiating position and she would not be rushed into starting the formal exit process this year, but Ms Leadsom struck a more urgent note.
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Free trade with Britain was o verwhelmingly in the economic interests of the other members of the bloc and the country could still lead the way on security matters in Europe, he said.
According to the Mail on Sunday, she told the Hansard Society’s Annual Parliamentary Affairs Lecture: “I’m going to nail my colours to the mast here: I don’t think the United Kingdom should leave the EU”.
He said: “I knew that by taking that decision all sorts of people would attack me personally but I love my country, I could not recommend that Boris was prime minister, I had tried to make that work and, therefore, it would have been a genuine betrayal of principal and of this country to have allowed Boris’s candidacy to go ahead with my support”.
Sir Roger, who describes himself as a Eurosceptic, but who voted to Remain, was highly critical of the Leave campaigners, saying he thought Mr Johnson and Mr Gove “had no plan and they were going to force it on the prime minister”.
For the Conservatives to choose a leader who did not support this cause because she did not have the passion or principle to take the risk of upsetting her career would surely be an act of folly.
Andrea Leadsom MP who is a committed Christian claimed the Tory leadership front runner Theresa May should not become Prime Minister because she does not believe in leaving the EU. The monarch in her address at the opening of the fifth session of the Scottish Parliament told UK’s political class to contemplate before deciding their next move.
Putting aside her failure to confirm what will happen to European Union citizens living in the United Kingdom after Brexit, May emerged relatively unscathed from her clash with Peston.
Boris Johnson has apologised to supporters for believing that Michael Gove would back him in the race for the Tory leadership. Asked if he had contacted Johnson, the man with whom he led the Brexit campaign but then turned on, one Gove supporter said: “He tried yesterday to call Boris, but he couldn’t get through”.
Theresa May has a commanding lead in the race to become the next United Kingdom prime minister, with six out of 10 Conservatives backing her, latest polling suggests.
Mrs Leadsom, who is expected to launch her campaign in London tomorrow, took the decision to stand at 9.45pm on Wednesday, shortly before close of nominations at noon on Thursday.
Daventry’s MP has given his backing to Andrea Leadsom to become the next leader of the Conservatives and Prime Minister.
“I believe that he is best able to unite the Conservative Party and the country and to ensure that we take full advantage of the new opportunities that are now open to us”. “I’m just a normal person”.
“As a person, she was always kind and courteous and as a leader she was steely and determined”, Mrs Leadsom said.
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“I think it’s important members have their opportunity to have their say and I think that what people want to hear is what the arguments are and people putting those arguments together”. From Tuesday, they’ll vote in secret ballots to whittle the five candidates down to a shortlist of two.
