No 10 hopes to delay Tory leadership contest until October

James Cleverly, the party’s deputy chair, has been urged by colleagues to stand for the leadership, sources said. Photograph: Tom Nicholson/REX/ShutterstockDowning Street hopes to delay any Conservative party leadership contest until October in a move that will hamper the campaigns of established candidates such as Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt and Sajid Javid.As Tory contenders began manoeuvres this weekend to replace Theresa May after the third defeat of her Brexit deal, sources confirmed t