Tom Tugendhat enters race for Conservative party leadership

Former security minister is the second candidate to declare in a leadership race that will run until November

Tom Tugendhat has confirmed he is entering the race to become the next Tory leader, insisting he could win the next general election.

Writing in the Telegraph, the shadow security minister said: “I am not just running to be the next leader of the Conservative party. I am running to be the next Conservative prime minister.