SAJID Javid seemed to launch his leadership bid at a speech at the CPS thinktank summer party last night. The former health secretary who resigned from Government on Tuesday, took credit for the wave of resignations which followed, saying “I believe the vast majority of my collegaues agree with what I’ve said and we’re seeing the consequences of that now as we speak”.
Javid said it “gave him no pleasure” to make his anti-Boris Johnson speech in Parliament, but his party “could be facing a 1997-style general election catastrophe unless we change.” Javid revealed that he’d sent Margaret Thatcher flowers during her similar woes in 1990.
