Many in Weybridge, where Philip Hammond has been MP for decades, share his anger at Boris Johnson
Hours before his sacking from the Conservative party, the former chancellor Philip Hammond claimed his purpose was to “defend my party against incomers, entryists, who are trying to turn it from a broad church to a narrow faction”. It was a sentiment many of constituents in affluent Weybridge in Surrey, where Hammond has been the MP for 22 years, seemed to share.
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