The arms race to name supporters has begun, and on balance we’ve decided to join it.
We have been compiling our own list for some time both of declared and undeclared supporters of possible contenders.
Some names will doubtless come off one column and be added to another…only perhaps later to revert to the original.
At any rate, here we go: as we wrote recently, what strikes us so far is how fluid the Parliamentary stage of the contest is presently set to be.
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Boris Johnson – 131
- Nigel Adams
- Bim Afolami NEW
- Stuart Andrew
- Steve Baker
- Steve Barclay
- Paul Beresford
- Jake Berry
- Crispin Blunt NEW
- Peter Bone
- Andrew Bowie
- Ben Bradley
- Suella Braverman NEW
- Andrew Bridgen
- James Brokenshire
- Robert Buckland
- Conor Burns
- Alun Cairns
- Bill Cash
- Rehman Chisti
- Therese Coffey
- Damian Collins
- Colin Clark
- Simon Clarke
- James Cleverly
- Geoffrey Cox
- Tracey Crouch
- David TC Davies NEW
- David Davis NEW
- Leo Docherty
- Nadine Dorries
- Oliver Dowden
- Richard Drax
- James Duddridge
- Iain Duncan Smith
- Michael Ellis
- Charlie Elphicke
- Nigel Evans
- David Evennett
- Michael Fallon
- Mark Francois
- Lucy Frazer
- Marcus Fysh
- Zac Goldsmith
- Helen Grant NEW
- Chris Grayling
- Chris Green NEW
- Andrew Griffiths
- Matt Hancock
- Simon Hart
- James Heappey
- Chris Heaton-Harris
- Eddie Hughes NEW
- Ranil Jayawardena
- Bernard Jenkin
- Andrea Jenkyns
- Robert Jenrick
- Caroline Johnson
- Gareth Johnson NEW
- Jo Johnson
- David Jones
- Daniel Kawczynski
- Greg Knight
- Kwasi Kwarteng
- Mark Lancaster
- Andrea Leadsom
- Andrew Lewer
- Julian Lewis
- Ian Liddell-Grainger
- Jack Lopresti
- Craig Mackinlay
- Stephen McPartland
- Esther McVey
- Ann Main
- Kit Malthouse
- Scott Mann
- Paul Maynard
- Johnny Mercer
- Amanda Milling
- Andrew Mitchell
- Damian Moore
- Anne Marie Morris
- Sheryll Murray
- Andrew Murrison
- Matthew Offord
- Priti Patel
- Owen Paterson
- Mike Penning
- Andrew Percy
- Chris Pincher NEW
- Rebecca Pow NEW
- Mark Pritchard
- Tom Pursglove
- Dominic Raab
- Jacob Rees-Mogg
- John Redwood
- Lawrence Robertson
- Douglas Ross
- Andrew Rossindell
- Lee Rowley
- Bob Seely
- Grant Shapps
- Alok Sharma
- Chloe Smith
- Henry Smith
- Andrew Stephenson
- Bob Stewart
- Graham Stuart
- Julian Sturdy
- Rishi Sunak
- Desmond Swayne
- Hugo Swire NEW
- Robert Syms NEW
- Ross Thomson
- Kelly Tolhurst NEW
- Justin Tomlinson
- Michael Tomlinson NEW
- Craig Tracey
- David Tredinnick
- Anne-Marie Trevelyan
- Liz Truss
- Shailesh Vara NEW
- Martin Vickers
- Theresa Villiers
- Ben Wallace
- David Warburton
- Matt Warman
- Heather Wheeler
- Bill Wiggin NEW
- John Whittingdale
- Gavin Williamson
Jeremy Hunt – 48
- Harriet Baldwin
- Peter Bottomley
- Steve Brine
- Alistair Burt
- James Cartlidge
- Jo Churchill
- Greg Clark
- Glyn Davies
- Alan Duncan
- Caroline Dinenage
- Jonathan Djonogly
- Philip Dunne
- Mark Field
- Vicky Ford
- Liam Fox
- Mike Freer
- Mark Garnier
- Nus Ghani
- Robert Goodwill
- Roger Gale
- Richard Graham
- Greg Hands
- Oliver Heald
- Nick Herbert
- John Howell
- Andrew Jones
- Gillian Keegan NEW
- John Lamont
- Jeremy Lefroy NEW
- Alan Mak
- Patrick McLoughlin
- Huw Merriman
- Penny Mordaunt
- David Morris
- James Morris
- Wendy Morton NEW
- Sarah Newton NEW
- Will Quince
- Mark Pawsey
- John Penrose
- Mark Prisk
- Amber Rudd
- Royston Smith
- Alec Shelbrooke
- Keith Simpson
- Iain Stewart
- Helen Whateley
Michael Gove – 36
- Peter Aldous
- Richard Bacon
- Kemi Badenoch
- Karen Bradley
- Jack Brereton
- Alberto Costa
- David Duguid
- George Eustice
- Michael Fabricant
- Nick Gibb
- Luke Graham
- Bill Grant
- Kirstene Hair
- John Hayes
- Trudy Harrison
- Damian Hinds
- Kevin Hollinrake
- Stephen Kerr
- Edward Leigh
- Oliver Letwin
- Rachel Maclean
- Mark Menzies
- Stephen Metcalfe NEW
- Anne Milton
- Nicky Morgan
- David Mundell
- Bob Neill
- Guy Opperman
- Neil Parish
- Claire Perry
- John Stevenson
- Mel Stride
- Tom Tugendhat
- Ed Vaizey
Sajid Javid – 23
- Lucy Allan
- Edward Argar
- Victoria Atkins
- Fiona Bruce
- Stephen Crabb
- Mims Davies
- Kevin Foster
- John Glen
- Robert Halfon
- Luke Hall
- Simon Hoare
- Nigel Huddlestone NEW
- Caroline Nokes
- Chris Philp
- Mary Robinson
- Andrew Selous
- Chris Skidmore
- Gary Streeter
- Derek Thomas
- Robin Walker