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Sajid Javid is awake and has shared an op-ed he has written in today’s Times.
Javid, who voiced his support for Sunak on Saturday, makes the case in the piece for the importance of a united Conservative party, pointing out that the British public feel lately that the Conservative party is neither popular nor “competent in acting in the national interest”:
We may not have always been popular but we have been seen to be competent in acting in the national interest. Sadly, the public are increasingly concluding we are neither. As it stands, Sir Keir Starmer is on course to win a Blair-size majority at the next general election.
The long-term consequences of such a victory would be disastrous. We know that support for proportional representation, a lower voting age of sixteen, and changes to rules on political donations is deep-rooted within Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the SNP. We would be left in the political wilderness for years under a series of coalition governments.
