Transport minister also dismisses Jacob Rees-Mogg’s claim that Sunak was a ‘socialist chancellor’
Grant ShappsHis comments came after the culture secretary, Nadine Dorries, who is supporting Liz Truss in the election, accused the former chancellor’s team of using “dark arts” to help get Jeremy Hunt into the next round because “Team Rishi” believed Sunak would beat Hunt in the final run-off vote of party members.
Shapps also dismissed a claim by the Brexit opportunities minister, Jacob Rees-Mogg, also a Truss supporter, that Sunak was a “socialist chancellor”. “Clearly a guy who is fiscally Conservative, wants to get the debt and deficit down, who wants to get the debt falling as a proportion of the overall economy – the idea that this is a socialist is clearly not true,” he said.
Sunak, Liz Truss, Tom Tugendhat, Kemi Badenoch, Penny Mordaunt, Jeremy Hunt, Nadhim Zahawi and Suella Braverman will be on the ballot after they secured the 20 nominations from fellow MPs needed to enter the contest. The vote is expected to take place between 1.30pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday, with the result announced at about 5pm. Any candidate with fewer than 30 votes will drop out.
“I just don’t agree with that,” he said. “Rishi, myself and others all worked very, very closely with the prime minister, even right through to and close to the end, to try to pull things round to try to rescue the situation.
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