Leading Brexiteer Lord David Frost has backed Rishi Sunak in the upcoming Tory leadership election, insisting the Conservative party must “move on” from Boris Johnson.
Taking to Twitter this morning, Lord Frost said that Mr Johnson “will always be a hero for delivering Brexit,” but added that it is “simply not right to risk repeating the chaos & confusion of the last year.”
Reiussing his July statement endorsing Mr Sunak in last leadership election, Lord Frost concluded by saying: “Let’s get behind Rishi.”
It comes after Mr Johnson landed in the UK after flying back from his Caribbean holiday in the expectation of launching a bid to replace Liz Truss in Downing Street just weeks after he left office in a mire of scandal.
His former deputy Dominic Raab, who is among more than 100 Tory MPs backing Mr Sunak in the race for No 10, warned that electing Mr Johnson would plunge the government back into “the Groundhog Day … the soap opera, of Partygate” – given that he faces a parliamentary inquiry over the scandal.
