Voices: Has Penny Mordaunt’s time finally come?
by John Rentoul
Mar 16, 2024
3 minutes
A coronation for the bearer of the sword of state. The latest scheme to save at least some Conservative MPs from the executioners of the electorate is a plot to replace Rishi Sunak with Penny Mordaunt in a leadership election with only one candidate.
“You could not have another contest and the I can see people uniting behind is Penny,” a source told the . Apparently, Tory MPs “on the right of the party”, who would rather have Kemi Badenoch or Suella Braverman as leader, would settle for Mordaunt if she would “allow social
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