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Tom Newton Dunn

OPINION - Tom Newton Dunn: The race for Tory leader has begun already — and it's a 16-way brawl

“The problem with my dear fellow Tory MPs is they all think they’re Winston Churchill,” a weary Cabinet minister told me this week. “Every single one of them.” Like many in the Conservative Party now, the minister has given up hope over the general election result.

It’s the next election campaign he’s fixated on — the Tory leadership contest that will start three weeks from today.

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