Major backs former Tories

SIR JOHN Major has endorsed three ex-Conservative independent candidates running against Boris Johnson’s party in the election.

The Tory former Prime Minister said he would vote for ex-ministers David Gauke, Dominic Grieve and Anne Milton – who all lost the party whip earlier this year after rebelling on Brexit – if he lived in their constituencies.

In an extraordinary intervention, he told a rally demanding a second EU referendum in London: “Let me make one thing absolutely clear: none of them has left the Conservative Party, the Conservative Party has left them.”