Prime Minister Rishi Sunak
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Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordent - Is Rishi a Tory or a Conservative?
If it had gone out to the party membership and the party membership had elected Boris Johnson that would have triggered a constitutional crisis in the Tory party. Penny Mordent remained in the contest for reasons that were somewhat unfathomable as she only had 26 publicly declared names at this point compared to I think something like a hundred and sixty old for Rishi Sunak. George Freeman who's returned to government as a minister under Mr Sunak he actually went out publicly and said look it's not happening Penny needs to pull out but every hour Penny Mordent stayed in was every hour her job prospects got worse why did she stick in well I ask you.
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