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Full transcript: Graham Brady says there is ‘no appetite’ for Tory leadership contest

Here’s the full transcript from Andrew Neil’s interview with Graham Brady, the chair of the 1922 committee, on the Sunday Politics show:

AN: Graham Brady, you think Mrs May should soldier on, why?

GB: Well, there’s no other party that is in a position to form a government. Clearly these aren’t the circumstances that either the Prime Minister or I or any of my colleagues would have wanted to be dealing with at the moment but they are the circumstances the electorate has presented us with and I think it’s our duty to make the best of that. It’s our duty to try to offer a government as resilient as it can be in quite difficult times.

AN: But, is she ever going to be more than a caretaker leader now?

GB: Well, I think one of the odd things about the experience of the last 12 months is that Theresa May, I think, has performed very well as prime minister and the public rather liked her as prime minister.

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