Former health secretary Matt Hancock has urged both Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak to work together in the national interest and called on the former prime minister to back his apparent rival to lead the country.
The West Suffolk MP – who was health secretary under Johnson – is backing former Chancellor Sunak, but urged the pair to “talk to each other”.
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Hancock tells BBC Radio Suffolk that co-operation is needed to bring “stable leadership” during a time of economic and political instability.
“We need to all come together and we need to deliver for the country,” he adds.
Asked if he thought a deal between the pair possible, Hancock says it would be “superb and strongly in the national interest” for his former boss to get behind Sunak.
