Analysis: Suella Braverman is lone frontbencher to voice leadership plan as Rishi Sunak, Sajid Javid and others hang back
. Her backers hope she can play the role meant for Leadsom in 2017 – sneaking through the MPs’ ballot to the final two, and then wooing the party’s rightwing grassroots members.
Sunak, Javid or Jeremy Hunt could all fit that description – though it appeared telling that some key One Nation group Tories were throwing their weight behindBoth Javid’s and Hunt’s teams were saying on Thursday they would continue to take soundings before making a final decision about whether to go for it.
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