Jeremy Hunt

Hunt argued that as a former foreign secretary and health secretary he had more experience than rival candidates. “I also recognise that the leader of a ...

They are, all of them, letting the country down.” McVey is nonetheless a notable contrast to Hunt, and could extend his appeal into other areas of the party. McVey has won one election against Labour, when she took the Wirral West seat from them in 2010.

JEREMY Hunt has announced that Esther McVey would be his Deputy Prime Minister if he wins the Conservative leadership contest in a deal which has blown the ...

All of them have a great deal to offer our Party and the country. She has won a lot of elections against Labour in the north, I have won them against Lib Dems in the south and I think we will be a formidable campaigning team." Ms McVey said: "To think that one person on their own can equally appeal to that very broad cross-section of voters is unrealistic.

The former Cabinet ministers made the remarks after putting themselves forward to succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister.

“I’m afraid this is a cheap political play. What we really need to be talking about is the success of Scottish students and the success of Scottish doctors and nurses, and the ability to help them to do even better. “They (the SNP) are failing in education and they are failing in healthcare and now they are trying to distract by talking about separation again,” he said.

CONSERVATIVE leadership candidate Jeremy Hunt said his colleague Esther McVey would be deputy prime minister if he were to become prime minister.

The two former health secretaries used the Daily Telegraph to launch their bids to take over from Johnson who announced on Thursday he was quitting.

"The long way out of this, the better way, is to turbo growth. You can't mitigate everything. 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.

BBC BREAKFAST host Nina Warhurst recalled a swipe at the Conservative MP who has thrown his name in the running to become the next Prime Minister.

“Being in government is a serious business, you don’t get wound up by the crowd. Steve replied: “Oh not in the slightest! After Boris Johnson announced on Thursday afternoon (July 7) he was stepping down from his current role as Prime Minister, many MPs have started putting their names forward to replace him.

The former health secretary believes the MP will help the Tories appeal to Labour's voters given her election wins in the north.

“Nevertheless, people may still say that Jeremy and I are not ideological soulmates, and they would be right. “Jeremy - better than anyone - can appeal to Blue Wall voters, and it is very kind of Jeremy to believe that I - as the co-founder of the blue collar Conservatives - can appeal better to those Red Wall voters - many of whom voted for us for the first time at the last election.” Nothing could be further from the truth.

TORY leadership contenders Jeremy Hunt and Sajid Javid have both ruled out a second independence referendum in the next 10 years.

But I trusted what I was told.” Asked about the timing of the two resignations, Javid said: “Not at all. I had no idea what he was going to do. “Now, I don’t know why someone would have said something to me that wasn’t true. What you're actually arguing is you're arguing the polls aren't pointing in the directions the SNP wish and actually they are failing in education, they're failing in healthcare and now they're trying to distract by talking about separation again. I think that no Conservative should raise taxes either. Asked if he always told the truth when he represented the Government on the broadcast rounds, and believed what he had been told by the Prime Minister, the BBC’s Sunday Morning: “I trusted what I was being told. "I'm afraid this is a cheap political play. He also said he would be happy to publish his tax records in the event he were one of the two final candidates in the race. On whether he would offer tax cuts for struggling families, Hunt said: “No Conservative should offer unfunded tax cuts. What we really need to be talking about is the success of Scottish students and the success of Scottish doctors and nurses and the ability to help them to do even better. "You know all of that.