Following the resignation of Liz Truss as Britain's fourth prime minister in a little over six years, her Conservative Party — in power since 2010 — is racing to select a replacement.
Candidates have until Monday to put their name forward, but party officials have announced that in order to be considered they will have to show they have the backing of 100 Conservative legislators, about a third of the party's lawmakers in the House of Commons.
While no candidates announced their interest immediately, here is a list of some possible replacements for Truss in No. 10 Downing Street.Boris Johnson delivers his final speech as prime minister outside No. 10 Downing Street on Sept. 6.just this past July and faces a parliamentary investigation into his behavior involving his public statements about social gatherings in Downing Street amid COVID-19 lockdown when he was prime minister.
And although Johnson was unwilling to leave Downing Street earlier this year, there has been little public indication that he wants to take up once more what many will consider a poisoned chalice, given the country's obvious economic and political challenges.Penny Mordaunt, leader of the House of Commons on Oct. 11. Mordaunt insisted earlier this week to the amusement of many that Truss was not"hiding under a desk.
Considered more of a centrist and pragmatic politician than Truss, he repeatedly warned that her policy proposals around tax cuts and spending would leave a hole in the country's finances. His statements to that effect were largely vindicated when financial markets reactedHaving only been elected as a member of Parliament in 2015, after a career in banking and hedge funds, his political rise to become finance minister by 2020 was meteoric.
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