Battling 'Maggie' May: Tories’ top choice to replace Cameron

Having seen off Norman Baker, Theresa May is now digging in her heels with another colleague, Sajid Javid

The Mole

Theresa May has just been voted by grassroots Tory supporters the top choice to replace David Cameron as party leader, if and when a replacement should be needed, ahead of Boris Johnson.

The vote of confidence in the Home Secretary comes despite – or perhaps because of - a week of troubles, including the hissy-fit resignation of Lib Dem Norman Baker as crime prevention minister in May’s department and the loss of Fiona Woolf as chair of the inquiry into child sex abuse.

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