DHAKA: Former chancellor Ken Clarke has said that Justice Secretary Michael Gove should abandon his bid to become Tory leader.

Gove, who dramatically switched his support from Boris Johnson on Thursday and decided to stand himself, will set out his vision for the country later, BBC reports on Friday (July 1).

But veteran Europhile Clarke said that Gove's ‘bizarre manoeuvrings’ disqualified him from being PM at a time of ‘grave crisis’.

Leadership candidate Liam Fox has hit out at ‘politics of the student union’.

In other developments, Home Secretary Theresa May has won the support of two more cabinet ministers Michael Fallon and Patrick McLoughlin and the endorsement of the Daily Mail for her candidacy to succeed David Cameron.

So far, she has received more pledges of support from Conservative MPs than Gove, Dr Fox or the other two candidates - Stephen Crabb and Andrea Leadsom.

BDST: 1457 HRS, July 1, 2016
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