Greening: ‘We have to answer the question about why we have failed to connect with people’

Only last month Justine Greening, the former education secretary, threatened to quit the Tories — yet today she is considering joining the race to become the party’s next leader.

In these febrile political times, the MP for Putney sees no contradiction in this. The prospect of a no deal warranted her threat to resign. The necessity of her party reconnecting with young people justifies a tilt at the top job.

Asked if she would enter the race to succeed May, she responded: “I might well do. . . It’s 32 years since we had a landslide and we have to answer the question about why we have failed to connect with people and their ambitions. Until we have a leadership that understands why that’s happened,