Rishi Sunak aims to repeat 'underdog' North Yorkshire win in Tory leadership election race

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He is taking inspiration from when he was surprisingly selected to replace William Hague as the Conservative representative for Richmond

“It is a very traditional Conservative association. It has produced people like Leon Brittan and William Hague and it was pretty clear the type of person the people expected them to select and indeed the person they probably thought they did want to select and then I showed up and I was absolutely the underdog in that race by a long way.""I just went and spoke to them and I met lots of them and did lots of meetings and that’s literally what I’m doing now on a bigger scale . . .

"Military men and strong local figures were all available to them. But when they filed out three hours later, they had chosen someone new to farming issues, with no army career, who wasn’t local, not from Yorkshire and was from an ethnic minority and brought up in Southampton. They were stunned but thrilled. They had chosen Rishi Sunak.

 

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How is a rich politician an 'underdog'? As chancellor, he was happy to allow his wife to not pay certain taxes, but he's happy to fleece the country & take more from average taxpayers. He's greedy & deceitful.

They could have put a plastic bag as the candidate for Richmond and as long as it represented conservative it would have won

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