This is genuinely surprising given only last year the same Tom Tugendhat warned that leaving the convention could have consequences for the Good Friday agreement, the Windsor framework and devolved administrations. So what has changed? Widely viewed as the one nation, centrist candidate, Mr Tuge...
Tom Tugendhat has promised a return of honesty to politics as his Tory leadership rival Robert Jenrick defended his desire for the UK to ditch a key human rights treaty. Mr Tugendhat, one of the six Tory MPs vying to be Rishi Sunak’s successor as Conservative leader,...
Tom Tugendhat, chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee and co–founder of the China Research Group, last week revealed he believed Chinese state-sponsored hackers were behind a series of cyber attacks against him, including email impersonations and phishing attempts. Tugendhat said that while h...
Image:Tom Tugendhat is one of six contenders for the Tory leadership Mr Tugendhat will blame "the collapse of social trust" on the recent unrest, saying this has been fuelled by misinformation, the rise of both Islamist and far-right extremism and the "reckless political rhetoric" ...
On Saturday, senior Tory MP Tom Tugendhat said that he has never experienced or witnessed his party’s whips using blackmail.The MP for Tonbridge and Malling said on BBC Breakfast: “I have to say I’ve always had a very close relationship with the chief whip and indeed a very...
Mr Tugendhat, who has been an MP since 2010, won his Tonbridge seat with an 11,166 majority in July. The former soldier is one of six contenders for the Tory leadership, along with James Cleverly, Dame Priti Patel, Robert Jenrick, Kemi Badenoch and Mel Stride. ...
With Tom Tugendhat it's: "I was a soldier. I served my country." No, really, Tom? Politics Live: Badenoch praises Israel for 'amazing thing with the pagers' in Lebanon As the "fireside chats" with the four Tory leadership candidates got under way on the conference stage,...
Tom Tugendhat, another Conservative former soldier, who chairs the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, has already indicated his intention to hold an inquiry. He tweeted last week: "How [the Foreign Office] handled this crisis will be the subject of a coming [Foreign A...
That's a clear rebuke to Tom Tugendhat, who surprised some colleagues by launching his leadership bid by proclaiming he would be prepared to pull out of the international court. Five MPs have so far announced they are running:James Cleverly,Dame Priti Patel,Mr Stride,Robert JenrickandMr Tugendh...
Another former home secretary, James Cleverly, received 21 votes, ex-security minister Tom Tugendhat got 17, and the last work and pensions secretary Mel Stride was on 16. Dame Priti picked up just 14 votes. Tap here A total of 118 votes were cast, meaning three Tory MPs didn't have th...