Sunday shows round-up: Raab sets out his leadership pitch

Dominic Raab –  I’m ‘willing to walk away’ The starting gun for the Conservative leadership race has been fired and there are currently eight declared hopefuls jockeying for position. Dominic Raab, the former Brexit Secretary, who resigned in protest last year over the government’s draft withdrawal agreement, sat down with Andrew Marr to outline his bid for the top job. Unsurprisingly, the issue of where the government now takes the Brexit negotiations featured highly on the agenda:

Conservative Party leadership contender Dominic Raab tells #Marr he wants a #Brexit deal, with changes to the Northern Irish backstop, but otherwise he is “willing to walk away” with no dealhttps://t.co/nM4yerl2mP pic.twitter.com/W965YzPjXm

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AM: What’s going to be really different because you’re Prime Minister? DR: First of all… we’d be willing to walk away from the negotiations if we don’t get very finite, targeted, reasonable change. Secondly, I think my experience [was] of being undermined by some others in government, so we’d need to have a very well organised No.