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Tory leadership campaign turns ugly
Conservative Party leadership candidate Robert Jenrick ahead of a speech at Old Queen Street Cafe, central London, outlining his plan to lower taxes, cut regulation and grow the economy, October 16, 2024

TORIES put their worst foot forward again today as their leadership contest descended into a mixture of the bizarre and the bad-mouthing.

Former cabinet minister Michael Gove, now taking up the editorship of the party’s house magazine the Spectator, attacked hard-right leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick for “looking like a Tory.” 

Mr Gove said that “one of Robert’s weaknesses is he looks like a typical Tory politician,” before conceding that he himself was a “Tory boy.”

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