Call for Conservative leadership contest to be cut short: May could win without vote
Andrea Leadsom The Conservative leadership contest should be cut short and one of the candidates given a coronation, a minister has said.
Anna Soubry, the business minister, said a period uncertainty would be bad for the party and country at a time of instability.
“It would be best if the candidates among themselves could just back one person and then we can get on with it,” she told LBC radio.
“This uncertainty — for this to drag on till September — is not great for our country.”
The Times newspaper cites an anonymous Conservative source as saying there will be “strong pressure” for MPs to start conceding if favourite Theresa May opens up an overwhelming lead in the race.
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