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Tory MPs and donors are plotting to “skip a generation” and install a younger MP as their next leader after concluding the front-runners to replace Theresa May are too toxic.A growing number of Conservatives believe that Boris Johnson and David Davis have “had their day” and only younger faces can revive the party’s fortunes.
There is fury among some MPs that older colleagues have lost their majority and risk ushering in a Labour Government through a series of unforced errors. Hopes are now turning to the “golden generation” of Tory MPs first elected in 2010 to win back younger voters who voted for Jeremy Corbyn en masse at the election. Sajid Javid, the Business Secretary, Dominic Raab, the Eurosceptic justice minister, and Priti Patel, the International Development Secretary, are all being talked up by colleagues.
Other ministers from the 2010 intake such as Jesse Norman, Brandon Lewis and Jo Johnson - the brother of Boris - are also mentioned as possible contenders. Supporters of the plan point to how David Cameron, the last Tory to win the party a majority, was barely known when he joined the leadership race in 2005.
If and when this happens, we need Year Zero – a real radical revolution,” said one 2010 MP about a leadership switch. “We need an equivalent to Ruth Davidson [the Scottish Tory leader] – someone completely counter-intuitive. She is a lesbian kick-boxer who doesn’t fit the mould.
“When she first got elected she didn’t have much cut through. But because they are new and different it will gather stream.”One veteran MP warned that “all the front-runners are contaminated in one way or the other".Another younger MP said: “They’ve had their day and it hasn’t worked. For the current lot – Boris and the rest of them – their time is up.”
While Mrs May’s position stabilised last week, Tory MPs continue to question whether she has the authority and support in Parliament to see through Brexit.There is little appetite for an immediate switch amid fears another election would be won by Labour, but that has not stopped private speculation about when Mrs May should go.