Tories 'need to take our time to get the right leader to challenge Labour'

CONSERVATIVE MPs are in “no rush” to appoint a new leader, a former minister claimed today.

- Rachael Burford

Kevin Hollinrake insisted that the party should run a “much slower process” than it has done in the past and may not have someone in place until the “end of the year”.

Rishi Sunak has pledged to stay on as Tory leader until arrangements are in place for selecting his successor following his party’s worst parliamentary election defeat in its history.

Mr Hollinrake told ITV: “I personally think we should take longer than [two months] to get the right person in place.

“We need to take a few months to decide exactly what went wrong and then decide the right person to take us forward and to present a viable challenge to the Labour Party which I think we can do.”