It’s been an embarrassing weekend for Housing Secretary Simon Clarke - backing a candidate for the Tory leadership who didn’t turn out to be a candidate after all.
Clarke - who was a strong supporter of outgoing Prime Minister Liz Truss until she resigned - then turned into an outspoken advocate of Boris Johnson in the Tory leadership race.
Clarke changed his Twitter profile to show him and Johnson. He then issued a statement co-authored with the Tees Valley Metro Mayor - Tory Ben Houchen - saying: “Boris is the person we need to lead our country and our party. He won the greatest election victory for years on a mandate to unite and level up the UK, and inspired millions of people who had never voted Conservative before to get behind a generous, optimistic vision of what Britain can be.
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