Robert Peston: Now it’s time for our big interview and I’m absolutely delighted to be joined by the Home Secretary and leadership frontrunner Theresa May. Very good to see you.
Theresa May: Good to see you Robert.
Peston: Home Secretary, there’s a lot of talk this morning that you’re streets ahead of the other candidates. If, in the course of the early rounds of this election, it was clear that you had the overwhelming support of MPs, and the whips came to you and said ‘Look, what we would like is a coronation – just one name going forward to Tory members rather than a contest of two, what would you tell the whips?
May: That I think there should be a contest. I think it’s important that members have their opportunity to have their say and I think that what people want to hear is what the arguments are, and people putting those arguments together.
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