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10:18Now PlayingPriti Patel has launched her Tory leadership bid saying it is 'time to put unity before personal vendetta.' The party's deputy chairman until earlier this month when he lost his seat, Jonathan Gullis, joins Ben Kentish to put forward the case for the former home secretary.
She joins Mel Stride, Tom Tugendhat, James Cleverly and Robert Jenrick in the race for Tory leader and subsequently leader of the opposition.
She wrote on Twitter: "I am standing to be the new Leader of the Conservative Party. We must unite to win!
"I can lead us in opposition and unite our party and get us match fit for the next election, with unity, experience and strength."
She said she could deliver the "experienced and strong" leadership needed to unite the Tories' disparate factions, in an article for The Telegraph on Saturday.
As leader she would use the "huge talent pool...of Conservative Party members" to "solve the big challenges that Labour, the Lib Dems and Reform don't have answers to", she wrote.
She said the party was a "grassroots movement" that should work from the bottom up rather than from the top down.
Dame Priti wrote that "rebuilding trust with an electorate who have stopped listening to us will be tough" and that the party must "reflect honestly on what went wrong" while avoiding a "soap opera of finger-pointing and self-indulgence".
Dame Priti became an MP in 2010 and served in Cabinet positions under Theresa May and Boris Johnson, as international development secretary and home secretary respectively.
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