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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Clea Skopeliti

Let Rishi Sunak ‘get on with the job’, says Grant Shapps

Rishi Sunak and Grant Shapps walking off a plane
Rishi Sunak and Grant Shapps arriving in Warsaw this week. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/AP

Conservative MPs looking for a new party leader need to allow Rishi Sunak to “get on with the job”, Grant Shapps has said.

Amid speculation that Sunak could announce an election next week in order to stave off potential challengers for the top job, the defence secretary said now was not “the time or place” to try to put another Conservative leader in place. The party is on its fifth leader since 2015.

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