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By Jessica Frank-Keyes Robert Jenrick has topped a Popular Conservatives poll as the favourite to lead the party in the Tory leadership race. The former immigration minister got 38.3 per cent backing from those surveyed, beating rival and former business and trade Kemi Badenoch on 34.9 per cent. It is the fourth so-called ‘PopCon’ poll Jenrick has won, which also saw respondentsargue in favour of moving the Conservative Party to the right. PopCon director Mark Littlewood said: “It is clear that the overwhelming majority of Tory members believe the party has drifted far too far to the soggy mid…

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