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Steve Borthwick has backed Maro Itoje to lead England into the 2027 Rugby World Cup and said it is his capability to be calm in the face of pressure which has seen him elevated to captain of the team.

Maro Itoje has been backed to captain England to the 2027 Rugby World Cup as Steve Borthwick shook up his leadership group by demoting incumbent captain Jamie George for the Six Nations Championship.

Maro Itoje on the Lions, leadership and politics ... which always made Jones’s comments perplexing. A Junior World Cup-winning captain with England’s Under-20s, he grew into a figure ...

Steve Borthwick insists Maro Itoje can lead England into the next World Cup after appointing him captain for the upcoming Six Nations at the expense of Jamie George. Borthwick met Itoje on Monday ...

From the moment that Maro Itoje pulled on an England shirt in 2016 ... and with Jamie George unlikely to make the next World Cup, the likelihood always was that Itoje would end up leading England ...

It was a cold November evening in 2014 when Maro Itoje stopped in the Saracens car ... already led England to victory at the Under 20 World Cup. From the very start, his progression to the top ...