Sajid Javid

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.

Their Conservative leadership rival Tom Tugendhat also said not enough time had elapsed since 2014's referendum.

Not forever, but not at least for a decade.” “The reality is that whoever replaces Boris Johnson, Scotland will still be saddled with a Tory government we didn’t vote for imposing an extreme Brexit, austerity cuts and damaging policies against Scotland’s will.” The SNP and Greens, who have a power-sharing agreement at Holyrood, accused the leadership candidates of “reading from the same anti-democratic playbook”.

Jeremy Hunt and Sajid Javid both focused on businesses with pledges to slash corporation tax - but Rishi Sunak has suggested it is too early for cuts.

And he said he would “freeze” the proposed increase in corporation tax, pledging: “That is a tax which will not go up.” “He grew a highly successful business and knows what it will take to grow our economy and back startups to succeed.” Mr Hunt – also a former health secretary – said he would not reverse the NIC rise because “the NHS needs the money”.

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Hunt said that no Conservative should either raise taxes or offer unfunded tax cuts. "We must win the next election." "This is a critical inflection point for our country.

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Nicola Sturgeon plans to go to the polls for a referendum on Scottish independence in October next year.

On the same show, SNP deputy leader Keith Brown said granting the Section 30 order required for another referendum would be a “good start” in repairing the fractured relationship between the UK and Scottish governments. Pressed on under what circumstances he would grant the request for powers to be devolved to hold a referendum, the chairman of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee said he would not be drawn on “hypotheticals in the future”. Javid, responding to the same question in a later interview, said: “The last one was for a generation and the generation hasn’t changed, so no.

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He wrote: "The SNP love campaigning against him. On the question of Scottish independence, Mr Javid said he would not rule out another Scottish independence referendum "forever", but would not have one "at least for a decade". Sajid Javid has said that a referendum on Scottish independence cannot be ruled out "forever". Mr Javid launched his bid for the Tory leadership contest overnight with an interview with The Sunday Telegraph. The former health secretary was quizzed in a series of quickfire questions on BBC's Sunday Morning programme.

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There is growing demand within the party that the process should be expedited instead of the normal two or three months. Five of the nine candidates belong to minority communities, which has been welcomed by diversity campaigners. That will apply to whoever takes over.”