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Louise Mensch backs George Osborne to be the next Tory leader

All this talk from Labour and the Liberal Democrats about who will be their next party leader appears to have got to the Tory camp. Although the dust is yet to settle following David Cameron’s surprise Conservative majority in the election, Mensch couldn’t help but offer her prediction for who the next Tory Prime Minister will be, when asked over Twitter. The former Cameron Cutie says that the man for the job next time around is not odds-on favourite Boris Johnson, but instead George Osborne:
https://twitter.com/LouiseMensch/status/599155805582135296
She claims that Bojo’s chance has come and gone:
Of course, whether Boris would agree with Mensch’s statement is another issue entirely.

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