Penny Mordaunt has said other Conservative leadership campaigns are running “black ops” briefings trying to damage her because they do not want their candidate to face her in the final round of voting, by Tory party members.
There has been a recent spate of negative coverage of the bookmakers’ favourite to succeed Boris Johnson, including an attack from the former Brexit negotiator David Frost, and a lengthy “dossier” in the Daily Mail, setting out Mordaunt’s supposedly liberal views.
