Tom Tugendhat, a backbench Conservative MP who chairs the Foreign Affairs Committee in the House of Commons, has thrown his hat into the ring to succeed Boris Johnson as party leader and prime minister.
Tugendhat was the first contender to launch a leadership bid after Johnson announced his resignation as Tory party leader on July 7, triggering a contest among Conservative MPs for the top job.
The former soldier, who has never served in government, said he would offer the party a “fresh start.”
Writing in The Daily Telegraph, he said: “I am putting together a broad coalition of colleagues that will bring new energy and ideas to government and, finally, to bridge the Brexit divide that has dominated our recent history.”…