Mr Tugendhat, who was also in the running to take over from Boris Johnson, is the latest senior Tory MP to back Ms Truss over Rishi Sunak. Mr Tugendhat and Ms Truss shared a warm embrace at a campaign event at Biggin Hill Airport in south London on Saturday, during which he said the Foreign Secretary’s promises of tax cuts were based on “genuine Tory principles” and could unite the party. . Mr Tugendhat, who chairs the Commons foreign affairs committee, was asked by reporters if he would like to be appointed foreign secretary in return for his support for Ms Truss. “Well, look, it would be a fantastic job to do, let’s not pretend it wouldn’t,” he replied. But there are “a lot of other jobs that I’ve talked about that I want to do,” he added, hinting that he’d like to go into commerce. “But the reality is that I’ve been promised nothing, I don’t expect anything,” he continued. “I hope so, but I have no right to wait.” Asked whether Mr Tugendhat would be foreign minister in a government she led, Ms Truss said making such a decision would be “extremely premature” because “the leadership election is not over”. But he extended an olive branch to Mr Tugendhat, describing him as a “very, very talented person”. Image: Ms Truss and Mr Tugendhat looked excited to see each other Boris Johnson threw a celebration for his wedding to wife Carrie on Saturday. Asked if she should have “focused more on the crises facing our country”, Ms Truss replied: “Well, she has done a fantastic job standing up to Putin, delivering Brexit and delivering our COVID vaccine and our helped us deal with it. big crisis. “I think he deserves to enjoy his wedding day and I wish him and Carrie and the whole family the best.” As for the cost of living crisis, Ms Truss said one way she would tackle it was by “growing the economy”. She also said she was a “high school fan” and that “her two daughters are both in high school.” Asked about her status as a front-runner in the leadership contest, she replied: “This is a very, very close race and I’m fighting for every vote.” Image: Rishi Sunak was asked to sign a copy of Margaret Thatcher’s biography in Hampshire on Saturday Rishi Sunak was also out campaigning on Saturday, tweeting pictures of himself with supporters in the south of England with the caption: “Busy Saturday with hundreds of members. Wouldn’t have it any other way!” The former chancellor was to attack “woke nonsense” in a speech apparently designed to excite the Tory base on culture war issues. He was also expected to tell his supporters in West Sussex that he would stop “left-wing rioters” from “bulldozing our history, our traditions and our fundamental values”.
