The battle to replace Boris Johnson has been “bruising” and “unpleasant”, the former Health Secretary Sajid Javid said on Thursday, as the two Tory leadership candidates prepared to go head-to-head in the latest live TV debate on Sky.
Mr Javid gave frontrunner Liz Truss’s campaign a further boost on Wednesday when he announced he was backing the Foreign Secretary over Rishi Sunak to be the next party leader and the UK’s new Prime Minister
