Two senior Conservatives have backed Tom Tugendhat to be the next party leader.
Steve Baker, a prominent Brexiteer, and Damian Green, a former Cabinet minister from the moderate wing of the party, endorsed shadow security minister Mr Tugendhat in a newspaper article.Both Mr Baker and Mr Green lost their seats in the General Election, but remain influential in Conservative circles.
We cannot spend the next five years in recriminations over the past 10. We cannot spend our time in opposition seeking to expel one wing of the party or another."They added: "Some colleagues' tone often meant that we were cast as a 'hard-Right' party or the 'nasty' party, leading voters to turn against us or to whichever party in their area was most likely to rid them of us," they warned."That won't do.
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