Theresa May has launched her Conservative leadership bid this morning. Her scheduled announcement came just moments after Michael Gove announced that he was also entering the race in a surprise move, having broken ranks with Boris Johnson’s own campaign. In her speech, which you can read in full here, the Home Secretary said:
‘My pitch is very simple. I’m Theresa May and I think I’m the best person to be Prime Minister of this country’
May spoke at length of her reasoning for wanting the top job during her 16-minute speech. On Brexit, she said the country had emerged from a ‘bruising and divisive campaign’. Admitting she called for Britain to ‘Remain’, she also tried her best to make it clear she had, too, insisted the sky would not ‘fall in’ in the event of Brexit – putting space between her and the ‘Project Fear’ narrative of much of the ‘Remain’ campaign which had riled so many.
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