He has never held government posts and is considered a historic opponent of Johnson
While the United Kingdom still awaits Sue Gray’s report on the disputed “garden party” in Downing Street, the former Army officer and Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat was the first to come out.
In an interview with Times, said he was willing to run for the succession of Boris Johnson at the helm of the conservative party and the government, if the premier is deposed following the scandal of alcoholic evenings in full lockdown.
As he said on the London newspaper radio, Tugendhat, 48, would consider it “an enormous privilege” to become prime minister, but, he added, “it is up to all of us to propose”. The other candidates indicated as most likely by the British press are currently Ministers Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss and former Minister and MP Jeremy Hunt; i “bookmaker“they put them in precisely this order of probability, and Tugendhat in fourth place.
“I know that some of my colleagues are shy and I don’t understand why – Tugendhat told the Times – I don’t think you should be embarrassed to want to serve your own. village, I am very proud to serve him “.
Despite his long parliamentary experience (he has been a deputy for 7 years), the politician has never held government posts and is considered a historical opponent of Johnson, with whom he often quarrels publicly during debates in Westminster. He was the youngest president of the Foreign Affairs Commission, and is considered a hawk on international politics. In the Times interview, he returned to attack Germany on the crisis in Ukraine, defining Berlin “a city where Russian money has bought too much influence”.
Before a political career, after studying Islam a Cambridge he participated as an officer enriched by a good knowledge of the Arabic language in the missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.