Tory leadership elections: The Top 10 candidates who came last in elections

The Independent: There’ve been 10 contested Tory leadership elections for the leadership of the Conservative party since it adopted democracy in 1965

1965: Enoch Powell, shadow defence secretary, 15 votes, 5 per cent of the total. Ted Heath, shadow chancellor, beat the other candidate, Reginald Maudling, shadow foreign secretary.

Powell’s poor showing emboldened Heath to sack him from the shadow cabinet three years later for his “Rivers of Blood” speech.

1975: Hugh Fraser, former secretary of state for air, 16 votes, 6 per cent.

Margaret Thatcher, shadow environment secretary, beat Heath in the first ballot, and then William Whitelaw, Geoffrey Howe and Jim Prior in the second after Heath withdrew.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/top-10-boris-johnson-tory-leadership-enoch-powell-b2118409.html

………………

FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDI

A AND SHARE WTX NEWS WITH YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY:

Facebook – Please like our page

Twitter – Twitter updates available in English and Arabic. Please follow us and we would love to hear from you

Instagram – Follow our pages in English and Arabic