Dame Priti Patel is the Conservative leadership candidate who best understands the party’s members, a former Cabinet minister has argued in a new public endorsement.
Wendy Morton, the MP for Aldridge-Brownhills, who was one of Liz Truss’s biggest parliamentary supporters, has announced her backing of Dame Priti in The Telegraph.
Ms Morton points to Dame Priti’s decades-long involvement in the Conservative Party to argue that she can bring it closer once more to the membership.
Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/08/28/priti-patel-leadership-membership-cabinet-minister/
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