Boris Johnson was scheduled to resign as British Prime Minister on Thursday. This put an end to the two and a half years of turmoil and helped us find a new leader.
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 regularly surpasses the party members' votes held by the website Conservative Home.
The truss has a carefully raised public image and was taken in a tank last year, reflecting the famous 1986 photo of Margaret Thatcher, the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
The 46-year-old woman spent the first two years of Prime Minister Johnson as an international trade secretary, defending Brexit, and was appointed last year as chief negotiator with the European Union in the United Kingdom. Truss said on Monday that Johnson had her "100% support", and she urged her colleagues to support him.
JEREMY HUNT
The 55-year-old former foreign secretary finished second only to Johnson in the 2019 Leadership Contest. After the turmoil of Johnson's Prime Minister, he will offer a more serious and indisputable style of leadership.
For the past two years, Hunt has used his experience as a former health secretary to chair the Parliamentary Health Selection Committee and is not hurt by working for the current government.
Earlier this year, he said his ambition to become prime minister "has not completely disappeared." Hunt said last month he voted to expel Johnson in a confidence vote that the Prime Minister had won slightly.
BEN WALLACE
Defense Minister Ben Wallace, 52, is the government's most popular with members of the Conservative Party in recent months, thanks to his treatment, according to Conservative Home. I became a member of. Ukrainian crisis.
A former soldier, he was dispatched in 1992 to capture an Irish Republican guerrilla unit suspected of attempting a bomb attack on British troops by a patrol he was commanding. Mentioned.
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.
RISHI SUNAK
Snack, who resigned from the Minister of Finance on Tuesday, said the British people "naturally expect the government to do it properly, competently and seriously." Until last year, it was my favorite as Johnson's successor. ..
He was praised for the COVID-19 Economic Relief Package, which includes a costly employment retention program to avoid mass unemployment.
However, Sunak later faced criticism that he did not provide sufficient living support to his family. Revelations about the non-dominant tax status of his wealthy wife and the fines he received for breaking the COVID lockdown rules, along with Johnson, 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. ..
SAJID JAVID
Javid resigned in protest of allegations that Johnson misleaded the public about knowing about allegations of sexual harassment against conservative lawmakers. I was a minister.
Former banker and advocate of the free market, Javid has recently played many ministerial roles as Minister of Health. He resigned from Johnson's Finance Minister in 2020.
The son of Pakistani Muslim immigrant parents, he is a worshiper of Thatcher and finished fourth in the 2019 Leadership Contest on behalf of former Prime Minister Teresamei.
NADHIM ZAHAWI
The newly appointed Finance Minister was impressed as the Vaccine Minister when the UK had one of the fastest deployments of COVID Jab in the world.
Zahawi's personal story as a former refugee from Iraq who came to the UK as a child sets him apart from his other competitors.
He co-founded the polling company YouGov before joining Congress in 2010. His last job was as an educational secretary.
Zahawi said last week that becoming a prime minister at some stage would be a "privilege".
PENNY MORDAUNT
Former Defense Secretary was dismissed by Johnson when he became Prime Minister after Johnson approved his 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 television 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.
TOM TUGENDHAT
The chairman of the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee and former soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan have 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.
SUEL LA BRAVERMAN
Braverman, the president of the lawyer who supports Brexit, has announced that she will take leadership. 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.
