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With Liz Truss out, contenders face a Monday deadline to get the backing of at least 100 Conservative Party lawmakers.

If there is more than one, the hopefuls will be whittled down before the final two are put forward to the 170,000 members of the Conservative Party. Many at the time speculated it could be a ” the Financial Times In 2019, Johnson helped his party to a whopping great win in the general election. But her “PM4PM” supporters are seeking to change that, pointing out that she polls better with the all-important Conservative Party members than Sunak. They point out that during the last contest his candidacy received the most support from his colleagues and say that many of his economic ideas turned out to be prescient. It’s possible that, given the high bar, only one candidate will be put forward by Monday at 2 p.m., which is when the nominations close. His time in office was marked by scandal after scandal and voters and his own colleagues were upset by his refusal to accept accountability. It is not certain if anyone else could galvanize the population to the same extent — or if Johnson himself even still can. The Telegraph, the Sun and the Daily Express all put on Johnson for their front page, while the left-leaning Mirror just called for a general election “now” in enormous print. Or might someone else emerge as the leading hopeful to become the next Conservative Party leader? Or Penny Mordaunt, who is not widely known but polls well with the Conservative Party members?

Boris Johnson and former finance minister Rishi Sunak were leading the potential contenders to replace British Prime Minister Liz Truss on Friday, ...

has now been very, very badly tarnished, and it may be very difficult to recover within the space of two years." [Truss quit](/world/uk/uk-pm-truss-threatens-disciplinary-action-against-rebel-lawmakers-2022-10-20/) on Thursday after the shortest, most chaotic tenure of any British prime minister after her economic programme shattered the country's reputation for financial stability and left many people poorer. Mordaunt is seen as a fresh pair of hands largely untainted by earlier administrations. Running in third is Penny Mordaunt, a former defence minister popular with Conservative Party members. He can turn it around again. With the Conservatives all but facing a wipe out in the next national election according to opinion polls, the race is on to become the fifth British premier in six years.

Rishi Sunak, who lost the last Conservative leadership race in a runoff against Liz Truss, has gained the most public support of Members of Parliament to ...

Liz Truss's sudden resignation has kicked off a short but dramatic search for the U.K.'s next Prime Minister.

The leadership race will only be a week long, maybe even shorter. Rishi Sunak Is the Favorite to Be Next U.K. Here’s What to Know.

The number of publicly declared MPs who are backing potential candidates for the Conservative leadership is growing, with three key figures emerging: the ...

16 James Davies 16 James Duddridge Each candidate will need at least 100 signatures to make it to the first round of voting on Monday.

Rishi Sunak is back in the frame for high office as the Conservatives seek a new leader to follow Liz Truss as prime minister.

By William James and Elizabeth Piper. LONDON (Reuters) -Boris Johnson and his former finance minister Rishi Sunak were leading potential contenders to ...

He said it would lead to a "death spiral" for the Conservatives. "I think they're assuming that he will win the next election because he did so well in the last election. And I think he's shown to completely lack integrity," said former accountant Fiona Waldron, 60. But members of the public were not all convinced. Influential defence minister Ben Wallace said he was leaning towards supporting the former leader. Opinion polls suggest the Conservatives would be all but wiped out if a national election were held now.

Former PM's allies say he will easily make threshold of 100 MPs, while critics warn of potential defections.

A senior former cabinet minister said the risk with Johnson was that “you never know where the next embarrassment is going to come from”. One senior backbench Tory said: “It looks to me like he’ll get the 100 nominations. Johnson will argue that only he has the ability to win an election, despite an Opinium poll suggesting Sunak would do better against Labour’s Keir Starmer. Jesse Norman, a senior Tory MP and Foreign Office minister, said returning to Johnson would be a disaster. But choosing Boris now would be – and I say this advisedly – an absolutely catastrophic decision,” he said. He said: ‘I’m flying back, Dudders, we are going to do this.