Article 616J1 Sunak and Badenoch launch Tory leadership bids as Baker rules out run and backs Braverman – as it happened

Sunak and Badenoch launch Tory leadership bids as Baker rules out run and backs Braverman – as it happened

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Nadeem Badshah (now); Andrew Sparrow and Hamish Ma
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Former chancellor and ex-equalities minister say they will run as arch Brexiter throws his support behind attorney general

More now from the 1922 Committee's Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, who says that while in an ideal world" deputy PM Dominic Raab would have been made caretaker prime minister after Johnson's speech yesterday, that ship has sailed".

I think in an ideal world, Dominic Raab, as deputy prime minister, should have been the caretaker prime minister, but that ship I think has sailed and we must we must now live with the fact that Boris Johnson will be prime minister until a successor can be voted on.

[Johnson] has said very clearly that he won't be making any major changes during that period. And I think that is a good thing.

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