As 11 Conservative MPs put themselves forward for the top job, Boris John says he's not backing any of them.
Home Secretary Priti Patel is also believed to be weighing up whether to run.
He added that it was "not the job of the prime minister at this stage" to comment on a preferred successor."The job of the prime minister at this stage is to let the party decide, let them get on with it and to continue delivering on the projects that we were elected to deliver," Mr Johnson said. Ms Truss, who announced on Monday that she was running, said she planned to slash corporation tax, reverse the recent National Insurance hike and reform business rates.wrote in the Daily Telegraph.
And we see every other candidate, in one way or another, taking a potshot at him, particularly on the issue of tax.Plenty of Conservatives find this, well, un-Conservative.At the official launch of his campaign, Mr Javid said the Conservative Party had "lost its way", and promised to "make tough decisions in the national interest".
But he added that it would not be "moral" to do this by borrowing so much that the government was "loading up debts on future generations". This comes amid calls from opposition parties and some Tory MPs for Mr Johnson to go immediately and appoint a caretaker prime minister in the meantime, with some suggesting his deputy Dominic Raab, who is not running for leader.
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