Johnson, Sunak discuss Tory leadership

By Agence France-Presse

Oct 24, 2022 12:12 am

LONDON: Conservative rivals Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak held face-to-face talks late Saturday (Sunday in Manila), reports said, as the feuding pair who once headed Britain's government were poised to battle for the leadership of their fractured ruling party.

Former prime minister Johnson, who returned from a Caribbean holiday earlier in the day aiming to launch an audacious political comeback just weeks after leaving office, met ex-finance minister Sunak to discuss the race, the BBC and others reported.

RIVALS TALK In this combination of file pictures created in London on Friday, Oct. 21, 2022, Britain’s former prime minister Boris Johnson (left) arrives back at 10 Downing Street in central London on Nov. 26, 2020, and Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak leaves 11 Downing Street in London on March 23, 2022. AFP PHOTO

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