Tory MPs should ‘get behind’ Sunak, says Andrew Mitchell

International development minister warns colleagues jostling for position not to be self-indulgent'

Tory MPs should get over their excess of doom and gloom" about their electoral prospects and get behind" Rishi Sunak, a cabinet minister has said, with a veiled warning to colleagues jostling for position not to be self-indulgent".

The international development minister, Andrew Mitchell, suggested on Sunday that rival groups of Conservative MPs, who have been proposing an array of policy ideas at the party conference in Manchester, should be more disciplined before the election.