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| Conservative leadership rift widens as Brexit recriminations begin | Conservative leadership rift widens as Brexit recriminations begin |
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| Conservative divisions over who should succeed David Cameron burst into the open with the foreign secretary warning Boris Johnson and other Brexit supporters they need to tell voters how they plan to reconcile “mutually incompatible” promises made during the referendum campaign. | Conservative divisions over who should succeed David Cameron burst into the open with the foreign secretary warning Boris Johnson and other Brexit supporters they need to tell voters how they plan to reconcile “mutually incompatible” promises made during the referendum campaign. |
| Philip Hammond said Johnson had a potentially difficult task ahead. “The key leave campaigners made contradictory promises to the British people,” he told ITV’s Peston on Sunday. “I’m sorry to say that but they did.” He added: “Boris is one of those.” | |
| Hammond continued: “Now they will have to resolve that by explaining how they will balance the tradeoffs … between the different things they promised which are mutually incompatible. That will be hugely disappointing to a lot of people in this country who voted leave. How that tradeoff is made is the key question now for the future prosperity of this country”. | Hammond continued: “Now they will have to resolve that by explaining how they will balance the tradeoffs … between the different things they promised which are mutually incompatible. That will be hugely disappointing to a lot of people in this country who voted leave. How that tradeoff is made is the key question now for the future prosperity of this country”. |
| Iain Duncan Smith, a prominent Brexit supporter, was questioned on air about one of the most high-profile claims made by the leave campaign – that money spent on the EU would instead be spent on the NHS. He said that this had never been a firm pledge. | Iain Duncan Smith, a prominent Brexit supporter, was questioned on air about one of the most high-profile claims made by the leave campaign – that money spent on the EU would instead be spent on the NHS. He said that this had never been a firm pledge. |
| “It is not a promise broken. I never said that through the course of the election,” Duncan Smith said in an interview on the BBC’s Andrew Marr’s programme. “What I said was we will be able to spend the lion’s share of that money,” he said. | “It is not a promise broken. I never said that through the course of the election,” Duncan Smith said in an interview on the BBC’s Andrew Marr’s programme. “What I said was we will be able to spend the lion’s share of that money,” he said. |
| Duncan Smith insisted that the next Conservative leader must come from the pro-leave camp, a condition that, if met, would exclude Theresa May, seen as the closest rival to Johnson. | Duncan Smith insisted that the next Conservative leader must come from the pro-leave camp, a condition that, if met, would exclude Theresa May, seen as the closest rival to Johnson. |
| “Whoever takes up that job … it would be very, very difficult for the public who have voted for leaving the European Union to find that they then had a prime minister who actually was opposed to leaving the European Union,” he said. | “Whoever takes up that job … it would be very, very difficult for the public who have voted for leaving the European Union to find that they then had a prime minister who actually was opposed to leaving the European Union,” he said. |
| “There was a clear decision, and what has to happen is delivery on that, and somebody who has been involved in that clearly has to be the case, because the government itself had a view … which was to remain, so now we need to change that position and actually deliver on this very clear mandate from the British people.” | “There was a clear decision, and what has to happen is delivery on that, and somebody who has been involved in that clearly has to be the case, because the government itself had a view … which was to remain, so now we need to change that position and actually deliver on this very clear mandate from the British people.” |
| Johnson remains the firm favourite for the party’s leadership that fell vacant after the prime minister’s resignation on Friday morning. Michael Gove is thought to be ready to work alongside him, while other candidates are taking soundings about whether they will stand. Some Tory MPs are talking up Theresa May, the home secretary, while George Osborne is considering his next steps, although his position is weakened after the country voted to leave the European Union. | Johnson remains the firm favourite for the party’s leadership that fell vacant after the prime minister’s resignation on Friday morning. Michael Gove is thought to be ready to work alongside him, while other candidates are taking soundings about whether they will stand. Some Tory MPs are talking up Theresa May, the home secretary, while George Osborne is considering his next steps, although his position is weakened after the country voted to leave the European Union. |
| Hammond, meanwhile, held out the possibility of a new prime minister opting for the UK to remain within the EU’s free trade area, even if that meant allowing uncontrolled flows of people from the bloc. | Hammond, meanwhile, held out the possibility of a new prime minister opting for the UK to remain within the EU’s free trade area, even if that meant allowing uncontrolled flows of people from the bloc. |
| Another of the Sunday morning interviewees, the business secretary, Sajid Javid, declined to speculate on who might succeed Cameron. “There is lots of talent in the party and there will be, I’m sure, lots to choose from,” Javid told the Andrew Marr show. | Another of the Sunday morning interviewees, the business secretary, Sajid Javid, declined to speculate on who might succeed Cameron. “There is lots of talent in the party and there will be, I’m sure, lots to choose from,” Javid told the Andrew Marr show. |
| Javid avoided questions on Osborne’s threat of a “punishment budget”, raising taxes and cutting spending, in the event of a Brexit vote. “There was a very robust debate during the whole campaign, lots of things were said. But what matters now is what is actually going to happen,” he said. | Javid avoided questions on Osborne’s threat of a “punishment budget”, raising taxes and cutting spending, in the event of a Brexit vote. “There was a very robust debate during the whole campaign, lots of things were said. But what matters now is what is actually going to happen,” he said. |
| He declined to speculate as to whether Osborne would seek to remain as chancellor, saying only: “That’s not a decision for me.” | He declined to speculate as to whether Osborne would seek to remain as chancellor, saying only: “That’s not a decision for me.” |
| May is expected to declare her intention to stand for leader this week. George Freeman, the life sciences minister, has already said he will stand. A number of other Tory MPs expected to stand wrote comment pieces for Sunday newspapers, including the pensions secretary, Stephen Crabb, in the Sunday Telegraph, and the education secretary, Nicky Morgan, in the Sunday Times. | May is expected to declare her intention to stand for leader this week. George Freeman, the life sciences minister, has already said he will stand. A number of other Tory MPs expected to stand wrote comment pieces for Sunday newspapers, including the pensions secretary, Stephen Crabb, in the Sunday Telegraph, and the education secretary, Nicky Morgan, in the Sunday Times. |
| The pro-Brexit MPs Liam Fox and Andrea Leadsom are also being linked with leadership bids, as well as possibly Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary. | The pro-Brexit MPs Liam Fox and Andrea Leadsom are also being linked with leadership bids, as well as possibly Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary. |