Tory leadership contender Nadhim Zahawi has told LBC that he would give his 'friend' Boris Johnson a Cabinet job if he became PM
Nominations for the first vote in the Tory leadership contest will be held at 1.30pm today.
He added that it was an important policy to deliver as people continue to be exploited by coming across the Channel in small boats. Former health secretary Sajid Javid said he was pulling out having apparently failed to attract enough support, moments before chairman of the 1922 Committee, Sir Graham Brady, made the formal announcement in a Commons committee room.
Meanwhile Ms Truss, the Foreign Secretary, gained the endorsement of prominent Johnson loyalists Jacob Rees-Mogg, Nadine Dorries and James Cleverly, in what was seen as a concerted move to prevent Mr Sunak entering No 10. Allies of Mr Sunak also hit back at the claim by Ms Dorries, calling it "complete nonsense" being "spread by anti-Rishi people".
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