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Rishi Sunak is still the Conservative Party leader – but Tories fear he could step down before they find a suitable replacementas the Tory leader once his replacement has been appointed – although there are concerns that the humiliation of his election loss could push him to leave before that.
He said: “An interim leader is not, in my view, the best option. The best option is to seek to persuade Rishi to remain.“It’s not an enormously long time in the scope of things. It’s probably till mid to end November.
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