other members do not drop out. let s speak now to sir bob neill he s the mp for bromley and chislehurst and is supporting rishi sunak. why is rishi sunak the right man for thejob, in your view? why is rishi sunak the right man for thejob, in yourview? rishi why is rishi sunak the right man for the job, in your view? the “ob, in your view? rishi sunak in the job, in your view? rishi sunak in myjudgment the job, in your view? rishi sunak in myjudgment is the job, in your view? rishi sunak in my judgment is the the job, in your view? rishi sunak in myjudgment is the one - the job, in your view? rishi sunak i in myjudgment is the one candidate who is in a position to pull the party together. even more importantly, he is the candidate to regain public confidence, notjust in the party, but in political leadership generally, and to tackle the economic challenges that the country faces, both in the short term and in the run up to the general election, which is going to be decided on th
significant votes, when you think they would go? they would go? i was looking carefully at they would go? i was looking carefully at the they would go? i was looking carefully at the spreadsheet l they would go? i was looking l carefully at the spreadsheet of supporters for people who declared for her in the third round of the leadership contest earlier this summer, and quite a significant number of those have already declared for borisjohnson and rishi sunak. by last night it was about half a dozen fur borisjohnson and seven for a rishi sunak, so she has not retained the support of those who backed in the previous campaign. i don t think it is necessarily the case that if she pulls out all of her supporters would follow her if she made an endorsement of either of the candidates, they might split both ways, it is unclear, but at the moment rishi sunak doesn t look as though he necessarily needs to win a major part of those 25, he is already at 146 publicly declared mps, he has a l
track record- track record. if boris johnson is re-elected track record. if boris johnson is re-elected as track record. if boris johnson is re-elected as leader track record. if boris johnson is re-elected as leader of - track record. if boris johnson is re-elected as leader of the - re elected as leader of the conservative party and prime minister, what would you do? i think we have to think minister, what would you do? i think we have to think very minister, what would you do? i think we have to think very carefully - we have to think very carefully about that, as i think it would present very grave difficulties for the standing of the conservative party. the reasons i have set out, i don t believe you can have someone who is not going to be able to concentrate on the key issues of the job of prime minister, when they have a very important parliamentary inquiry hanging over them, they should not hit that lightly. the risk of that finding might be against them. if boris wan
for that to happen at this stage. here with me now is lucy fisher, she is the chief political commentator for the times radio. borisjohnson is boris johnson is keeping borisjohnson is keeping everyone hanging on, why do you think that is? i think it is clear, there are only 60 mps that have publicly declared for him. these keeping a tally of additional mps who they say are privately backing him, whether they are whips are private members of the party who do not want to back him publicly for some reason. i think it is likely the case that he would want to launch only when he has reached that threshold, and are certain of being on the ballot paper. certain of being on the ballot -a er. ~ .
despite the figure of public backers being just over half of what is needed. clearly, he s going to stand, there is a great deal of support for him. the system is that some have made their names public, and people have a choice to make their names public or not. but the people doing the numbers for boris campaign tell me they have the numbers, so the hundred that is necessary are there. another supporter said borisjohnson had promised to run a tighter ship if he went back to downing street. an investigation by mps is due to start soon about what he told parliament about the covid rule breaking last time he was in charge. boris is an amazing figure in our party, an incredible campaigner, he lights up any room, people love him, and if he was in charge of the campaigning, he could be an incredible asset, but as prime minister, we would be absolutely shackled to somebody who was bound to bring us down.