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...Davis added, “She’s fantastic in the House of Commons but most of all she’s got a vision for Britain, she’s a patriot and she knows what sort of Conservatism she wants to stand for....
...Davis said Mordaunt was the “most likely to beat Rishi Sunak”....
...“I had hoped this would be a contest of virtues,” said David Davis, who backed trade minister Penny Mordaunt to be Tory leader....
...Mordaunt, whose number of publicly declared backers is second only to the ex-chancellor, won the support of former Brexit secretary David Davis who stated she was the “most likely to beat Rishi Sunak”....
...David Davis, the former Brexit secretary and vocal Johnson critic, said it was time he put “the interests of the nation ahead of his own interests”....
...The prime minister replied by saying he did not know what Davis was talking about....
...Johnson’s tense relationship with MPs was underscored by David Davis, the ex-Brexit secretary, who said he had spent weeks defending Johnson from constituents angry about Downing Street parties held in lockdown...
...Tory Brexiters pointed the finger at the “Remain tendency” in the party, although recently calls for Johnson to quit have also come from prominent Leavers including former minister David Davis and backbencher...
...We heard from David Davis. He’s the former Brexit secretary who also backed the agreement....
...Less than an hour after a Conservative MP defected to Labour and with rebel Tories circling, party grandee David Davis gravely told the prime minister: “In the name of God, go.”...
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...As Seb Payne reports in his column, the party’s various factions are all sizing up their chances and think they have a decent shot, which also limits the chances that they will be able to cohere around an...
...However, David Davis, former Brexit secretary, noted that the Conservative party had ditched its leader — Neville Chamberlain — in 1940....
...As you will notice, neither Ken Clarke, nor Michael Portillo, nor David Davis went on to win their leadership election....
...Rees-Mogg and David Davis, former minister and friend of Paterson, were involved....
...Additional reporting by Sebastian Payne...
...A group of Tory grandees — including former cabinet ministers Iain Duncan Smith, Damian Green, Owen Paterson and David Davis — will on Tuesday seek to pass a law focused on Huawei by trying to amend the...
...Sebastian Payne, the FT’s Whitehall editor, says boosting welfare benefits would be a step in the right direction and ministers should consider a quarterly welfare assessment....
...Additional reporting by Sebastian Payne and Jim Pickard...
...And, finally, three unmissable Brexit stories My Big Read with colleague Sebastian Payne on reviving the English state through hyper local government is not to be missed....
..., which came into effect in March 2020 and provides the government with temporary powers to curb the spread of Covid-19, passed by 484 votes to 76, with 35 Conservative MPs including Steve Baker, David Davis...
...David Davis, former cabinet minister and civil liberties campaigner, said a domestic vaccine passport would run counter to the British tradition where people cannot be stopped and asked to produce “their...
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...Former Tory party leader Iain Duncan Smith supported the amendment, along with former ministers Damian Green and David Davis....
...Tory MPs distrusted him and he in turn mostly despised them, describing former Brexit secretary David Davis as “thick as mince” and “lazy as a toad”....
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