Suella Braverman will not run to be the next leader of the Conservative Party.
The former home secretary said she had the backing she needed to run but has chosen not to.
“Although I’m grateful to the 10 MPs who wanted to nominate me for the leadership, getting on to the ballot is not enough.
“There is, for good or for ill, no point in someone like me running to lead the Tory Party when most of the MPs disagree with my diagnosis and prescription” of what went wrong and how to fix it, she wrote in an article for The Telegraph.
She said the party’s disastrous election result was down to failures on migration, taxes and “transgender ideology”.
She added: “I’ve been branded mad, bad and dangerous enough to see that the Tory Party does not want to hear this. And so I will bow out here.”
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