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Matt Hancock’s Boris endorsement irks One Nation Tories

Is Boris Johnson’s route to No. 10 now unstoppable? The former foreign secretary has more MPs backing him than any other candidate and over the weekend bagged the support of two leadership dropouts – Esther McVey and Matt Hancock. Hancock’s support for Johnson is the most surprising – just a week or so ago the Health Secretary used an interview with the Financial Times to take a swipe at Johnson by declaring ‘f—- “f—- business”’ in response to his infamous ‘f—- business’ comment. It follows that many are reading Hancock’s endorsement as a sign that even Johnson’s critics have come around to the former mayor of London.

However, not everyone in the Tory party agrees. In fact, Coffee House understands Hancock’s decision has caused something of a stink amongst many of the MPs he had been trying to win over when he first launched his leadership bid.

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