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Endorsements in the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election
This is a list of endorsements for declared candidates for the 2019 leadership election for the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom.
Members of Parliament
[edit]In total, 188 out of 313 Conservative MPs openly backed a bid by one of the candidates in the race.
James Cleverly
[edit]Prior to his withdrawal on 4 June, James Cleverly had 4 backers among the Members of Parliament for the Conservative Party, including himself.
Michael Gove
[edit]Prior to his elimination on 20 June, Michael Gove had 36 backers among the Members of Parliament for the Conservative Party, including himself.
- Peter Aldous, MP for Waveney since 2010[2]
- Kemi Badenoch, MP for Saffron Walden since 2017[3]
- Richard Bacon, MP for South Norfolk since 2001[2]
- Karen Bradley, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland since 2018 and MP for Staffordshire Moorlands since 2010[4]
- Jack Brereton, MP for Stoke-on-Trent South since 2017[5]
- Alberto Costa, MP for South Leicestershire since 2015[6]
- David Duguid, MP for Banff and Buchan since 2017[7]
- George Eustice, MP for Camborne and Redruth since 2010[8]
- Michael Fabricant, MP for Lichfield since 1
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I very much welcome this opportunity to debate what is, as you have rightly said, Mr Deputy Speaker, an extremely important subject. It is the second such debate we have had in the space of two weeks, as we recently debated World Press Freedom Day. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Damian Collins) who has been an assiduous campaigner on this topic and who chairs the all-party parliamentary group on media freedom.
The safety of journalists is of critical importance, as journalists play a vital role in ensuring that democracy functions properly and in contributing towards a free society. The role that journalists play in exposing corruption, holding power to account and informing the electorate of the truth is absolutely central to a democratic, free society. Investigative journalism plays a critical role and we will all remember examples, such as the exposure of the thalidomide scandal, the corruption that riddled FIFA, the Panama papers and even MPs’ expenses.
Such journalism shone a powerful light into areas that needed to be exposed. That is particularly important at the moment. The need for the provision of trusted and reliable information is absolutely critical, and has been over the course of the last year, at a time when fake news has b