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Here at Matt Hancock’s very trendy leadership campaign launch where there are pastries, electronic music and party bags 
As reported by @rosskempsell, Judge Rinder is here
Hancock says the gloomy weather in London today is a “metaphor” for the misery in Westminster
On Brexit Hancock says any attempt to prorogue Parliament would be an insult to those who died for freedom and democracy in WW2: “It goes everything against what those men who waded on the beach died for.”
Hancock says he refuses to offer “simple solutions and populist answers” to complex and challenging issues. No idea who he could be referring to.
Hancock says that if the Tory party tries to ape the Brexit Party “we are finished.” He says that the party needs a “fresh face” as leader because the “big names” (guess who) are stained by the “bitterness and rancour” of the last few years. Punchy stuff.
Hancock challenges leadership rivals who have made bold tax promises to produce “costed plans” for how they intend “to keep debts falling”
