Grant Shapps

A trio of cabinet ministers declared they were running for the Tory leadership on Saturday night, amid calls to alter party rules to thin out the ...

There are big debates to be had about the size of the state and whether public spending should rise further to deal with today’s challenges. The NHS needs more funding if it is to deal with the backlog of non-Covid cases and be in a fit state to handle a winter surge. His rivals will, however, be sorely tempted to commit to slashing the tax burden, despite warnings from the Office for Budget Responsibility last week that doing would be high risk in an economy burdened by inflation and high borrowing. What will be the key issues in the leadership debate that could shape public policy under the next prime minster and on which candidates will seek to make their mark? Under the current rules, a Tory MP has to be nominated by eight of their colleagues. Braverman, who has pushed for the government to take a tough stance on the Northern Ireland protocol, has won the significant support of the arch-Brexiter Steve Baker. However, a newly elected 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers will this week set the rules of the contest, with several senior Tories calling for changes to remove some of the “absurd” bids for the leadership.

The Transport Secretary said he wants to the UK economy to be the biggest in Europe by 2050 and will address the cost-of-living crisis.

“Even as the skies darkened over his premiership, often because of errors committed by him, I hoped he could pull it back. Trust in our politics and our party is collapsing. On Saturday Mr Tugendhat tweeted: “The reason I’m standing is simple. In his bid, Mr Shapps said he believes in the spirit of levelling up, but the state should “get out of the way” in some areas. I tell you this: for all his flaws – and who is not flawed? – I like Boris Johnson. I have never, for a moment, doubted his love of this country.”

Transport secretary Grant Shapps has launched his Conservative Party leadership bid with a swipe at his political rivals over their disloyalty to Boris ...

“We must map a clear path to lower taxes, not just expressing good intentions. We should trust people and allow them to spend their money as they wish. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. “Even as the skies darkened over his premiership, often because of errors committed by him, I hoped he could pull it back. – I like Boris Johnson. I have never, for a moment, doubted his love of this country.” I tell you this: for all his flaws – and who is not flawed?

Former chancellor Rishi Sunak is also among the contenders running to replace Boris Johnson after he was forced to resign over the Chris Pincher scandal.

The bookies' favourite, Ben Wallace, announced on Saturday that he would not stand. He joins a leadership race that includes the former chancellor Rishi Sunak, who announced his bid on Friday, vowing to "restore trust, rebuild the economy and reunite the country". Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, has become the latest Conservative to announce a bid to become the next prime minister.

The Cabinet trio are the latest names to join the race to succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister.

“I have not been mobilising a leadership campaign behind his back. He said: “My aim is a simple one: to provide the opportunities that were afforded to my generation, to all Britons, whoever you are and wherever you come from. “I have never, for a moment, doubted his love of this country.”

In addition, Rishi Sunak, Attorney General Suella Braverman, ex-minister Kemi Badenoch and senior Tory Tom Tugendhat have launched their own bids.

In his bid for leader, he said: ‘My aim is a simple one: to provide the opportunities that were afforded to my generation, to all Britons, whoever you are and wherever you come from. ‘The long way out of this, the better way, is to turbo growth. Ms Badenoch announced her campaign in The Times, with a plan for a smaller state and a government ‘focused on the essentials’. Following elections to the executive of the backbench 1922 Committee on Monday, the new body will draw up a timetable for the leadership election. Mr Shapps, the candidate with the most political experience to have entered the race, launched his campaign in the Sunday Times, saying he wants to rebuild the economy so it is the biggest in Europe by 2050, and address the cost-of-living crisis. Ms Dines said she was ‘honoured’ by her appointment, while Ms Jenkyns said she was looking forward to working with the team at the Department for Education. To steady the ship and to stabilise the economy. Born in Iraq to a Kurdish family, the new Chancellor came to the UK as a nine-year-old when his parents fled the regime of Saddam Hussein. Mr Javid said his plan for the economy would cover both short-term measures – including a new package of support worth up to £5 billion to help with energy bills – and a “longer-term” vision for tax reform. Most of those areas are in the so-called ‘Red Wall’ of traditional Labour heartlands, the newspaper said, with a quarter of locations in England and Wales in line for the tax break. The leadership contenders’ timescales for the change are different, with Mr Hunt slashing the tax to 15p in his first autumn Budget, while Mr Javid would set a ‘glide path’. Declaring their candidacies in The Telegraph, Mr Hunt and Mr Javid both said they would not only scrap the former chancellor’s plans to raise corporation tax from 19% to 25% in April, but reduce the rate to 15%.

He said the Government had "lost sight" of what it "should be about"

As Conservatives, we should tolerate the unnecessary continuation of neither.” Mr Shapps said: “I do think we have lost sight of what we should be about as a Conservative government. In addition to Mr Shapps and Ms Braverman, former Chancellor Rishi Sunak, ex-minister Kemi Badenoch and senior Tory Tom Tugendhat have launched their own bids, with further announcements anticipated over the coming days.

Transport Secretary puts increased expenditure and rebuilding Armed Forces at heart of leadership bid.

We can’t waste whole areas of the country, consigning them to second-class status.” It’s what we as a nation do – we step forward to confront the bully, the gangster. Our corporation tax rate must be the most attractive of all major democratic economies. “We have too few fighter squadrons, warships and land systems to sustain a long period of high-intensity warfare. “We should be proud of that. Mr Shapps said: “Our Armed Forces are superb – professional, courageous, simply the best.

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi and Transport Secretary Grant Shapps have also revealed plans to run in the leadership contest. The race ...

"It has not been an easy choice to make, but my focus is on my current job and keeping this great country safe. "Thanks to Brexit, we are now a free nation. "Even as the skies darkened over his premiership, often because of errors committed by him, I hoped he could pull it back. "We cannot tax our way into prosperity. "I have not been mobilising a leadership campaign behind his back. "To steady the ship and to stabilise the economy.

Grant Shapps has announced his campaign to become the next Conservative Party leader and prime minister, saying he will end a period of “tactical government ...

Welwyn Hatfield MP Grant Shapps has launched a bid to lead the Conservative Party after Prime Minister Boris Johnson's resignation on July 7, 2022.

"The patterns have definitely changed. Mr Shapps commanded 52.6pc of the vote share in Welwyn Hatfield in 2019. In a Welwyn Hatfield Times interview last May, Mr Shapps said the sale was "phenomenally" successful. Mr Shapps launched his bid to replace Mr Johnson in a statement. "As Conservatives, we should tolerate the unnecessary continuation of neither," Mr Shapps said. Welwyn Hatfield MP Grant Shapps has launched a bid to lead the Conservative Party.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps confirmed his bid to be the next Prime Minister, vowing to shrink the state and have government "get out of the way"

“Even as the skies darkened over his premiership, often because of errors committed by him, I hoped he could pull it back. – I like Boris Johnson. I have never, for a moment, doubted his love of this country.” I tell you this: for all his flaws – and who is not flawed?

Four more Conservatives have entered the Tory leadership race to replace Boris Johnson. The bookies' favourite, Ben Wallace, announced on Saturday that he ...

His pitch for leader focuses on cutting taxes. Mr Sunak announced his bid on Friday, vowing to "restore trust, rebuild the economy and reunite the country". He resigned from the Treasury shortly after Mr Javid. "By choosing me," he said, "the Conservative Party is sending a signal to those voters that we have listened to your concerns and we have changed. He also pledged to cut business taxes to the lowest level in the Western world. In a statement setting out his vision for the country, he also said the "burden of tax is simply too high". Unveiling his bid, Mr Zahawi, who was born in Iraq and "came here aged 11 without a word of English", said he would "steady the ship and stabilise the economy".

Another name has been added to the Tory leadership bid as Transport Secretary Grant Shapps launched his campaign. | ITV National News.

Tom Tugendhat, the chairman of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, has already said he will be be putting his name forward. On Saturday he tweeted: “The reason I’m standing is simple. This is how we renew as Party and win the next General Election.” – I like Boris Johnson. I have never, for a moment, doubted his love of this country. I tell you this: for all his flaws – and who is not flawed? I have not been mobilising a leadership campaign behind his back.

Transport secretary Grant Shapps has launched his bid for the Tory leadership. "It is easy to criticise Boris after keeping one's head down for years.

Transport secretary Grant Shapps has launched his bid for the Tory leadership. Shapps’s is the second big name that was thrown in the Tory leadership race, after former Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced his bid yesterday. Transport secretary Grant Shapps launches Tory leadership bid

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps launches his bid to be the leader of the Conservative Party today in The Mail on Sunday with a simple pitch - 'I can win ...

He was accused of hiding a second job, but insists all the ‘pen names’ were historic, as was any publishing income earned. He was in a coma for nearly a week, and says the odds of coming out of it were 50-50. It was a load of nonsense,’ he says. A decade later he was diagnosed with the cancer Hodgkin lymphoma and had a year of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Once ‘Remain-lite’, he backed Brexit after the vote in 2016 and now hails its opportunities and freedoms. He says the party had told ministers not to speak to the family directly, but to go through lawyers, which made him uncomfortable. One was a car crash in Kansas when he was 20 and travelling in the US. The car flipped five times, with Mr Shapps thrown out. As co-chairman at the time, he said: ‘The buck stops with me.’ Accountability is key, he says, adding that he insists on audit trails and putting every decision in writing, with named officials on documents to know who made them. We need to leave money in people’s pockets.’ However, he is short on the details of how to achieve it. We meet in his Westminster office on Friday as he calls Tory MPs to shore up support. Why? He says he understood people’s anger, and felt it himself.

Former health secretaries Jeremy Hunt and Sajid Javid have both pledged to slash corporation tax as they announced separate bids for the Tory leadership.

The breaks that helped propel his vertiginous ascent, enabling him to afford a home in Santa Monica, a £6.6 million mews house in Kensington, a sprawling manor house in North Yorkshire and a London flat for visiting relatives? In a real state of denial and determined to stick in. And these days a humble-origins back story is a trusty weapon in the politician’s arsenal. Rival candidates are already planning to revive the tax issue, on the grounds that it is alienating to working-class voters. Indeed, his advisers wrongly suggested he had a similar past to that of Sajid Javid, his predecessor at the Treasury, and famously the son of an immigrant Muslim bus driver who came to Britain with just £1 in his pocket. and guess which master of the dark arts is already dripping in the poison, writes GLEN OWEN Sources close to Mr Sunak deny claims by rival camps that Mr Cummings is working on his campaign. The race for No.10 is already mired in claims of affairs and money laundering... 'My aim is a simple one: to provide the opportunities that were afforded to my generation, to all Britons, whoever you are and wherever you come from. 'Even as the skies darkened over his premiership, often because of errors committed by him, I hoped he could pull it back. First elected to parliament in 2005, Shapps has served as Secretary of State for Transport since Johnson took office in 2019. 'That has been lost and a change is needed.

Cornwall MP and environment secretary George Eustice has come out in support of Grant Shapps in the Tory leadership race. The MP for Camborne and Redruth is ...

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is also widely expected to stand, with the Mail on Sunday reporting she will seek to advocate “classic Conservative principles”, and could declare her candidature as soon as Monday. The long way out of this, the better way, is to turbo growth. Former health secretaries Jeremy Hunt and Sajid Javid have both pledged to slash corporation tax as they announced separate bids for the Tory leadership. Scotland and Northern Ireland would get money to match the policy. The MP for Camborne and Redruth is backing transport secretary Mr Shapps to succeed Boris Johnson in Downing Street. A message attributed to Mr Eustice on social media, shared by Mr Shapps, said: “Grant has always shown good judgment and an ability to handle anything thrown his way.