The shadow foreign secretary argued the party should ‘play it long’ amid a split over the timeline of the contest to succeed Sunak.
A senior Tory has urged Rishi Sunak to stay on as party leader until November amid divisions in the party over how long the contest to replace him should take.
Mr Sunak said he would step down as Tory leader once the formal arrangements for choosing his successor were in place. He also said the example of Michael Howard, who delayed his departure as Conservative leader for several months after an election defeat in 2005, should be followed.“Following the very significant defeat of the Conservative Party, we need to adopt a modest profile in this respect.
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