Tory leadership hopeful Andrea Leadsom’s campaign principles appear to have been revealed on Twitter
Ideas include waging a war on political correctness and making positive discrimination illegal
ANDREA Leadsom’s campaign team may have accidentally revealed her strategy to win over the Tories in the leadership contest – to a commuter on their way home.
The picture was taken by a member of the public on the Tube in London and then posted on Twitter.
It appears to be a campaign blueprint – packed full of issues and ideas to focus on as Leadsom takes on Theresa May up and down the country to try and convince Tory Party members to choose her as the next Prime Minister.
Statements on the document – which is folded in half - include “wage war on political correctness”, “Human Rights Act”, “Win back some of the Ukip voters” and “Positive discrimination explicitly illegal”.
In a reference to the majority in the EU referendum, one of the other statements is “Win the 52 per cent”.
There are no official markings on the piece of paper to make it clear it is definitely from the Leadsom campaign, but the ninth statement is “Boris to campaign around the country for her” and yesterday he did just that.
Other statements include ‘win back some of the Ukip voters’ and ‘win the 52 per cent’ – a reference to the majority in the EU referendum.
The sheet of paper contains other statements which suggest it could genuinely be from the Leadsom camp. It reads: ‘Boris to campaign around the country for her.’
Last night, she was joined by ex-London mayor Boris Johnson in her South Northamptonshire constituency.
On the campaign trail she has said the next Prime Minister will need to trigger Article 50 – the formal process for Britain leaving the EU – as soon as possible after being appointed.
And on the document this is listed as “Trigger Article 50 in September”.
On a notepad which is being held next to the piece of paper there are the words HRA/ECHR (Theresa May was right).
The Home Secretary had previously said Britain must leave the European Convention of Human Rights but then dropped the idea as it did not have the support of the majority of MPs in Parliament.
The photograph was taken by Ben Hart, 26, who wrote on Twitter: “Interesting notes from the Tory chap who stood next to me on the Central Line.”
He then tweeted both Andrea Leadsom and Theresa May to ask whether it was their campaign.
No one was available from Team Leadsom this morning to comment on whether the document was genuine.