Conservative leadership race: Former PM Stephen Harper endorses Pierre Poilievre – National

Former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper has endorsed Pierre Poilievre to be the social gathering’s subsequent chief.

In a uncommon public return to social gathering politics, Harper launched a brief video on Twitter discussing his endorsement.

Harper says the competition to steer the social gathering is stuffed with candidates, however one stands out.

The previous prime minister says Poilievre served as a powerful minister below him when the Conservatives have been final in energy, earlier than being defeated by Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2015.

Harper says Poilievre spent the previous few years in opposition being the social gathering’s “most vocal and efficient critic” of the federal government.

He says Poilievre has talked about urgent financial points like debt and inflation, and introduced options which are “rooted in sound Conservative concepts.”