Race kicks off to find Liz Truss' successor as UK PM within a week
A fast-tracked contest to find the next Tory leader and prime minister has begun after Liz Truss dramatically resigned as PM, barely six weeks into the job.
Tim Montgomerie, founder of the Conservative Home website, told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme people should be taking rumours of a Boris Johnson leadership campaign "very seriously". Mr Johnson, who is on holiday in the Caribbean, was forced to resign as Conservative leader in July following a string of scandals.
Other names being touted as contenders, although not confirmed, include Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, International Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, Justice Secretary Brandon Lewis and Suella Braverman, who resigned as home secretary on Wednesday. She told the mass of waiting camera crews and reporters she could not deliver the mandate on which she had been elected, and would resign.Opposition parties immediately insisted it was time for a general election to decide who should be the next prime minister.
Ms Truss, 47, has said she will stay on until her successor is chosen. They will inherit a fractious party 12 years into office, with turmoil at home and abroad. Through Thursday morning, the number of MPs publicly calling for the prime minister to go doubled and Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the influential 1922 Committee - a group of backbench MPs - was summoned to No 10 to give her an update.
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