Rory Stewart insists he is ‘the only one who can stop Boris Johnson’ in PM race
RORY Stewart said he was the only man who could bring down Boris Johnson as he stunned MPs by making the second round
Experts immediately credited “Shy Rories” for his success after he secured 19 votes – three times the public declarations before yesterday’s vote.
Speaking to The Sun, the anti-No Deal Brexit candidate said: “I’m the only one who can stop Boris as my message is that different to his.
“To win the race you have to have a message of change, people are fed are up with the same old politics.”
Justice Secretary David Gauke insisted he could now reach the final two.
He said: ““He’s the most impressive candidate, he’d make the best Prime Minister.”
Mr Stewart was a rank outsider when he entered the race.
He launched into a whirlwind tour of the country to try and convince Tory MPs he could win the party votes outside of their traditional heartlands.
The Sun Says
IT is increasingly clear, claims Rory Stewart, that it’s him against Boris for No10.
And it is increasingly clear to us that next season’s title race will be between Man City and Brighton.
It takes some bottle to get only 19 MPs’ votes, and come last among candidates who survived the first round, then declare yourself the main challenger.
We can’t fault Stewart’s self-belief. But what does he imagine would happen if somehow he won? Yes, he would certainly secure the applause of his Blairite fans in their Twitter bubble, none ever intending to actually vote Tory.
As for the life-or-death mission to win back millions and millions of Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party followers . . .
Not a chance.
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