A Tory leadership contest would “take at least eight weeks”, a Conservative MP warned this morning as they also suggested there is no clear successor to Boris Johnson.
Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, the treasurer of the 1922 Committee, said during a leadership contest there would be a “complete stasis of leadership of this country at a time when we are in a really serious situation with the cost of living crisis, with potentially rail strikes and so on”.
He told the BBC: “And then the other problem is: Who would you have? There will be at least five or six candidates who will put in for the job, I would imagine, eventually the process is designed to produce a winner… but the problem with that is somebody will emerge, there will be a lot of colleagues who haven’t voted for that particular candidate, that candidate will then have the job of reuniting the party, trying to deal with all the problems that the country faces and I think at the moment, for me, we should leave matters as they are.
“But, as I say, the situation is changing on a daily basis.”
