I’m seriously considering running says ‘Steve Who?’

TORY serial rebel Steve Baker yesterday announced he is ‘seriously considering’ running for the top job – but fears he will not get enough support.

The self-styled Brexit ‘hard man’, 51, claimed that he was being ‘implored’ to stand. He warned the Government is in

‘freefall’ but added: ‘I think this will come to an end in the next couple of days. It’s now time to think about the future.’

Asked about his ambitions, the former Brexit minister told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘I have to think about it very seriously. As a working class kid from Cornwall, I would never have imagined I’d seriously be on your programme talking to you about becoming prime minister.

‘But the reality is some people I deeply respect are telling me, even imploring me, to do it. I must consider it seriously... but I am realistic – it seems to me quite improbable the “rebel commander”... should win.’ Asked to name top MPs he would bring into his Cabinet, Mr Baker described Defence Secretary Ben Wallace as ‘impressive’, Attorney General Suella Braverman as a ‘long-standing ally’ and said ex-Chancellor Rishi Sunak had ‘unfulfilled potential’.