Penny Mordaunt Says She Plans To Stand For Parliament At Next Election
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Former Conservative Cabinet minister Penny Mordaunt has confirmed she intends to stand at the next general election.
Speaking on Tuesday morning at a London event looking ahead to International Women's Day, the ex-Tory leadership candidate told attendees she planned to return to the House of Commons.
Speaking to PoliticsHome after the event, Mordaunt said: "I have previously said I would like to return to the Commons, and I will try and do some good in the meantime."
PoliticsHome understands that the former MP for Portsmouth North is on the party's candidates list.
The former Cabinet minister also told a private dinner last week: "like [Donald] Trump, I am up for a second stint".
Mordaunt was one of the most high-profile politicians to lose their seat at the July election. The former defence secretary was defeated by Labour's Amanda Martin.
Prior to losing her seat, Mordaunt was seen as a potential candidate to replace Rishi Sunak as Tory leader having run in two previous leadership contests.
She often polled strongly among Tory members while a senior MP and prior to the party's devastating election defeat last year, there were reports that some Conservartive MPs had urged her to launch a bid to replace Sunak and take them into the election.
Labour's majority in Portsmouth North is a narrow 800 after Martin overturned a huge Tory lead on a swing of 18 per cent in July.
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