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| Conservative leadership rift opens as Brexit recriminations begin | Conservative leadership rift opens as Brexit recriminations begin |
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| Conservative divisions over who should succeed David Cameron have 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 have 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. |
| With Johnson and his co-figurehead of the official leave campaign, Michael Gove, still absent from public view as tensions over who should be the party leader in the post-Brexit era began to show, Philip Hammond said Johnson had a potentially difficult task ahead. | With Johnson and his co-figurehead of the official leave campaign, Michael Gove, still absent from public view as tensions over who should be the party leader in the post-Brexit era began to show, 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.” | “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”. |
| His comments came as Iain Duncan Smith, a prominent Brexit supporter, appeared to dismiss one of the most high-profile claims made by the leave campaign, that all the UK contribution to the EU could now instead go to the NHS. This had never been a firm pledge, the former pensions secretary 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. | “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. |
| With a series of leadership hopefuls set to declare their candidacy in the coming days, one Tory MP has called for the party to delay the process of replacing Cameron. Phillip Lee, the pro-remain MP for Bracknell, said Cameron’s stated timetable of having a new leader in place for the party’s annual conference in October was too rushed. | With a series of leadership hopefuls set to declare their candidacy in the coming days, one Tory MP has called for the party to delay the process of replacing Cameron. Phillip Lee, the pro-remain MP for Bracknell, said Cameron’s stated timetable of having a new leader in place for the party’s annual conference in October was too rushed. |
| Lee told the Guardian he was writing to Graham Brady, chair of the party’s backbench 1922 Committee, to urge that no shortlist be made before candidates had a chance to present themselves to the conference, with a new incumbent in place in November instead. | Lee told the Guardian he was writing to Graham Brady, chair of the party’s backbench 1922 Committee, to urge that no shortlist be made before candidates had a chance to present themselves to the conference, with a new incumbent in place in November instead. |
| Lee insisted this was not intended to halt a Johnson coronation, and that he was taking no view on who to support. “I don’t, quote, see what the rush is,” he said. “I think we should take some time over this – it is about the future direction of the country. As a practising doctor I know that people don’t make good decisions at a time of shock.” | Lee insisted this was not intended to halt a Johnson coronation, and that he was taking no view on who to support. “I don’t, quote, see what the rush is,” he said. “I think we should take some time over this – it is about the future direction of the country. As a practising doctor I know that people don’t make good decisions at a time of shock.” |
| Johnson remains the firm favourite for the party’s leadership that fell vacant after the prime minister’s resignation on Friday morning. He has yet to speak publicly following a brief address on Friday, and spent Saturday playing in a charity cricket match at Earl Spencer’s Altorp estate. | Johnson remains the firm favourite for the party’s leadership that fell vacant after the prime minister’s resignation on Friday morning. He has yet to speak publicly following a brief address on Friday, and spent Saturday playing in a charity cricket match at Earl Spencer’s Altorp estate. |
| 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 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. | 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 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. |
| The Conservative grandee Lord Heseltine has said Johnson, Gove and the Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, must lead talks on the EU exit, so they can be held accountable for the consequences. | The Conservative grandee Lord Heseltine has said Johnson, Gove and the Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, must lead talks on the EU exit, so they can be held accountable for the consequences. |
| “Any other negotiating team will produce claims that those three would have achieved a better result and during the negotiations they will excuse any deterioration in Britain’s position as a failure of the negotiators,” the strongly pro-EU Heseltine told the Press Association. “They must be in charge and seen to be in charge.” | “Any other negotiating team will produce claims that those three would have achieved a better result and during the negotiations they will excuse any deterioration in Britain’s position as a failure of the negotiators,” the strongly pro-EU Heseltine told the Press Association. “They must be in charge and seen to be in charge.” |
| 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 BBC’s 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 BBC’s Andrew Marr show. |
| May is expected to declare her intention to stand for leader this week. Liam Fox, the Eurosceptic former defence minister, said on Sunday he had not yet made up his mind whether to stand. George Freeman, the life sciences minister, has already said he will. 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, who talked of working-class disenchantment with “a political class in Westminster which now looks the same, dresses the same way, and speaks the same strange language. | May is expected to declare her intention to stand for leader this week. Liam Fox, the Eurosceptic former defence minister, said on Sunday he had not yet made up his mind whether to stand. George Freeman, the life sciences minister, has already said he will. 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, who talked of working-class disenchantment with “a political class in Westminster which now looks the same, dresses the same way, and speaks the same strange language. |
| The education secretary, Nicky Morgan, called in the Sunday Times for an “optimistic and positive” one-nation visions. | The education secretary, Nicky Morgan, called in the Sunday Times for an “optimistic and positive” one-nation visions. |
| The pro-Brexit Andrea Leadsom is also being linked with leadership bids, as well as possibly Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary. | The pro-Brexit Andrea Leadsom is also being linked with leadership bids, as well as possibly Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary. |