Yahoo News David Davis: ‘If Tory leadership was like chief executive job application, I would win’
David Davis has said he would be the leader of the Conservative Party if the application process was like that of hiring a chief executive.
The former cabinet minister, who lost out to David Cameron in the 2005 leadership race, told Tatler magazine he believed he had the credentials for the top job.
He said Theresa May “probably” has another year as Tory leader and revealed he did not submit a letter of no confidence in the prime minister last year.
The former Brexit secretary said: “If this were an application for a job as a chief executive, I would probably win it.
“But it isn’t. And that isn’t the way the decision is done.”
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Mr Davis also told the magazine he did not regret persuading Mrs May to stay on after she lost her majority at the general election in 2017.
Asked if that was the right decision, he said: “Well, who would your alternative have been?
“I don’t regret it. I mean, look, you always make decisions based on what you know at the time.”
Mr Davis also revealed his wife advised him to quit the Cabinet after Mrs May unveiled her controversial Chequers plan for Brexit in July.
He recalled: “She just said ‘leave’. She’d seen quite how much work went into the job. She saw me up close in the way nobody else does.”
