Former secretary Michael Gove has backed Kemi Badenoch in the Tory leadership race.
He described the former minister as “courageous, principled, brilliant and kind” and said she “didn’t flinch” after raising the government’s response to Tony Sewell’s controversial Commission on Racial and Ethnic Differences report.
Mr Gove said: “Cammy isn’t just winning the argument, she’s getting results – to get the Whitehall machine to start new policies and get Britain back on track.
“Now she has the opportunity to use her first-class brain to solve the big problems facing our country.”
Writing in The Sun, he added: “As Tory leader, she will be Sir Keir Starmer’s worst nightmare.
“There are so many things we need to fix. From processing passports and driving licenses to defense procurement and investment in science – we need someone with Kemi’s focus, intellect and drive who isn’t a strong ***.”
The former equalities minister promised “limited government” and a “focus on what matters most”.
She favors lower taxes “to stimulate growth and productivity, accompanied by strict spending discipline.”
Writing in The Times, she also hit out at “identity politics” and said Boris Johnson was “a symptom of the problems we face, not the cause of them”.
She said governing Britain today required a “nimble centre-right vision” that “can get things done despite entrenched opposition from a cultural establishment that won’t accept that the world has moved on from Blairism”.
PA
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