Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi and Transport Secretary Grant Shapps have all launched Tory party leadership bids.
Truss will launch a bid to become the next Conservative leader by pledging that she will advocate ‘classic Conservative principles’, the Mail on Sunday reported.
The newspaper said she will reverse the Government’s national insurance rise, cut corporation tax and introduce measures to ease the cost- of-living crisis when she announces her campaign, possibly on Monday.
Newly-appointed Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi threw his hat into the ring for Tory leader, joining his predecessor Rishi Sunak, and becoming the second Cabinet minister to declare their ambition in the space of an hour.
The former education secretary is the third serving Government minister to kick off their campaign for the leadership, after Mr Shapps and Attorney General Suella Braverman announced their intentions to run.
Earlier, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said that after ‘careful…
