James Cleverly refused to say if he would vote for Donald Trump

James Cleverly danced around questions from Radio 4 over whether or not he would vote for Donald Trump if he were an American this morning.

Cleverly, the shadow home secretary who is the only Tory to confirm his plan to stand to be party leader, angrily dodged the query on the Today programme.

Tensions started to build when presenter Justin Webb pointed out that one of his likely competitors Suella Braverman has already said she would vote for the Republican if she was an American citizen.

Braverman told LBC on Tuesday that she believes the world would be “safer” with Trump in the White House.

But Cleverly immediately said it was a “moot point” because........

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