Boris Johnsonsaid Thursday that he would give in to calls from conservative colleagues and lawmakers and resign from the British Prime Minister.
Below is a summary of the potential successors to him. However, there are no clear favorites and they are not listed in promising order.
Liz Truss
The foreign secretary is the grassroots darling of the ruling conservative party and is a regular party. It exceeds the opinion poll of. Members run by the website Conservative Home.
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Truss has a carefully raised public image, last year, the famous 1986 of Britain's first female prime minister. It was taken with a tank, reflecting the picture of. Margaret Thatcher.
46-year-old initially campaigned against Brexit, but said she changed her mind after Referendum.
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She was appointed as Chief Negotiator with the European Union in the United Kingdom last year during the first two years of Johnson's premiere as International Trade Secretary.
Truss is currently in charge of dealing with the EU over post-Brexit trade rules in Northern Ireland, and she is in an increasingly difficult situation in negotiations.
She said on Monday that Johnson had "100% support" and urged her colleagues to support him.
Jeremy Hunt
Former Foreign Secretary 55 is second only to Johnson in 2019 leadership The contest ended in 2nd place. After the turmoil of Johnson's Prime Minister, he will offer a more serious and indisputable style of leadership.
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For the past two years, Hunt has been the former health secretary and chair of the parliamentary health selection committee. Serving in the current government.
Earlier this year, he said his ambition to become prime minister "has not completely disappeared." Mr Hunt said last month he voted to expel Johnson in a confidence vote that the Prime Minister had won slightly.
Hunt endorsed staying in the EU prior to the 2016 vote. It's unclear if he feels the need to maintain a tough line with Brussels to gain the support of conservative voters, or if he can pursue a more realistic relationship to improve post-Brexit trade. ..
Ben Wallace
Defense Minister Ben Wallace, 52, is the most popular conservative government. As a member, I have stood up to overtake the truss in the last few months. According to Conservative Home, party members are grateful for their response to the Ukraine crisis.
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He was a former soldier and was dispatched in 1992, and the patrol he was commanding was the Irish Republic Army. Mentioned in the case of capturing a guerrilla unit. He is suspected of attempting to launch a bomb attack on the British army.
He began his political career as a member of the Scottish Decentralized Parliament in May 1999 and was first elected to the Westminster Parliament in 2005.
He was the Minister of Security from 2016 to the present. Three years later, his division won praise for evacuating British citizens and allies from Afghanistan last year and sending weapons to Kyiv.
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He favored staying in the EU prior to the Referendum.
Rishi Sunak
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He is in the COVID-19 Economic Relief Package, which includes a costly employment retention program to avoid mass unemployment. Was praised.
However, Sunak later faced criticism that he did not provide sufficient living support to his family. The non-dominant tax status of his wealthy wife and the exposure to the fines he received with Johnson for breaking the COVID lockdown rules hurt his position.
His tax and spending budget last year undermined his claim to put the UK on track for the largest tax burden since the 1950s and to support lower taxes. ..
Sunak voted to leave the EU in 2016.
Sajid Javid
Javid was the first minister to resign Protests accusations that Johnson misunderstood the general public about knowing allegations of sexual harassment against conservative legislators.
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A Former banker and advocate of the free market, Havid played many cabinet roles and most recently served as Minister of Health {269 in 2020. } Johnson resigned as Finance Minister.
Son of parents of Muslim immigrants in Pakistan, he is a worshiper of Thatcher and replaced former Prime Minister Teresa May at the 2019 Leadership Contest 4 The vacation vote contributes to economic turmoil.
Nadhim Zahawi
The newly appointed Finance Minister was impressed as the Vaccine Minister when the UK had one of the fastest deployments of COVID shots in the world.
Children's Zahawi's personal story as a former refugee from Iraq, who came to the UK around that time, sets him apart from other competitors.
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He co-founded the polling company YouGov before joining Congress in 2010. His last job was an education secretary. Zahawi was at some stage last week. He said becoming a prime minister would be a "privilege".
He left the EU He supported that.
Penny Modant
Former Defense Secretary has been dismissed by Johnson . He became prime minister after he endorsed rival Hunt in the last leadership contest.
Mordaunt is an avid supporter of leaving the European Union and has gained national attention by attending a real-life TV diving show that is now obsolete.
Currently, the lower trade minister, Modant, called the party breaking the government's blockade "shameful." She had previously expressed her loyalty to Johnson.
Mordaunt campaigned to leave the EU in 2016.
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Tom Tugendhat
Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Chairman's Committee and fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan A former soldier has already shown that he will be competing in a leadership contest.
He is a regular critic of Johnson and will provide his party with a clean break with the previous government.
However, he has never worked in a cabinet, so it has not been relatively tested.
He voted to stay in the EU.
Suella Braverman
Braverman, the president of the lawyer who supports Brexit, says she will take leadership. I am saying. She was severely criticized by lawyers during her tenure after the government tried to break international law over post-Brexit trade rules in Northern Ireland.
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She campaigned to leave the EU and was a junior minister in the Brexit division in May, at the time. He resigned in protest of the Prime Minister, proposing a deal with Brexit and saying it wasn't enough to break his relationship with Brock.
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