The field is getting crowded in the race to succeed British Prime Minister Theresa May as head of the Conservative Party
, with Health Secretary Matt Hancock becoming the fifth politician to announce he will compete for the post.
“I’m going to run to be the next prime minister, because I believe from the bottom of my heart that we need a leader for the future, not just for now," Hancock"Of course we’ve got to deliver Brexit, and I will, but we need to win the argument for free enterprise and a free society, and do all the other things that we need to do to make this country a great place to live," he said, adding that “a no-deal Brexit is not an active policy that’s available to the next prime minister,...
Nevertheless, he added that"a new leader will have the opportunity to do things differently and have the momentum of a new administration."earlier this month showed Johnson is the only prospective Tory leadership candidate capable of holding together the coalition of voters who backed the U.K.'s ruling Conservative Party at the last election.
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