Seven Tory leadership candidates declare themselves feminists

Boris Johnson considers himself a feminist. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty ImagesThe leading Conservative leadership candidates – Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, Sajid Javid, Michael Gove, Matthew Hancock, Andrea Leadsom and Rory Stewart – have all declared that they are feminists, after Dominic Raab said he was “probably not” one. The question of women’s equality became an issue in the contest after Raab, one of the favourites to be Conservative leader, rejected the