The ‘world king’ is dead so who will be the next to wear the crown? Already the jockeying has begun to replace Boris Johnson as the next Tory party leader, with MPs beginning to endorse each other. Coffee House will be keeping a list of those who have declared and who their backs are but Mr S thought he would provide a quick run down of some of the most likely candidates and their strengths and weaknesses…
Nadhim Zahawi
The millionaire pollster has had quite the exciting week. Education Secretary on Wednesday, Chancellor of the Exchequer on Thursday and Brutus the Assassin on Friday. Zahawi’s volte face on Boris stunned Westminster last night as news leaked out that the onetime Johnson ally had chosen to turn on the PM. Has that move damaged his prospects? Or does it prove that the Stratford MP has the steel necessary to run the country?
Penny Mordaunt
The ambitious trade minister has surprised her supporters by not being one of the 57 Tories who resigned from Johnson’s government.
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