Liz Truss’s bid to become prime minister has received a much-needed boost after leading Eurosceptics, including the attorney-general Suella Braverman, backed her campaign.
Truss also won the support of Braverman-backer Steve Baker, the former Brexit minister, and Lord David Frost, who delivered a scathing attack on Truss’s rival Penny Mordaunt, the trade minister, in the process.
The foreign secretary is the favoured candidate of supporters of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and has sought to appeal to the small-state, low-tax, pro-Brexit wing of the Conservative party.
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