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In the 2005 leadership election, she initially supported Kenneth Clarke again.

Once he was eliminated, she turned support towards Liam Fox.

Following Fox's subsequent elimination, she took time to reflect before finally declaring for David Davis.

She expressed reservations over the eventual winner David Cameron, feeling that he did not, like the other candidates, have a proven track record, and she was later a leading figure in parliamentary opposition to his A-List policy, which she has said is " an insult to women ".

At the October 2006 Conservative Conference, she was Chief Dragon in a political version of the television programme Dragons ' Den, in which A-list candidates were invited to put forward a policy proposal, which was then torn apart by her team of Rachel Elnaugh, Oliver Letwin and Michael Brown.