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Although UK Prime Minister Liz Truss has sworn to lead the Conservative Party into the next election, which is scheduled for two years from now, many people are skeptical that she will hold that position for very long. The leading candidates for leadership are listed below.
Shini Sunak
In this summer’s Tory leadership race, Truss comfortably defeated the outgoing chancellor of the exchequer by promising to cut taxes and regulations without reducing government expenditure.
Sunak, 42, cautioned her repeatedly that her intentions to finance the measures via further borrowing were dangerous and may harm the UK’s market confidence as well as inflation that has been at a decades-high level.
Some believe he is the most qualified Conservative MP to succeed Truss now that he has been proven completely correct and Truss has abandoned her plans and replaced her former finance minister with Jeremy Hunt, who supports Sunak.
In the early stages of the most current leadership race, Sunak won the backing of the greatest number of Tory legislators. It is believed that Sunak still has a sizable following inside the parliamentary party.
He has the greatest ratings among the favoured Truss options, according to a new YouGov survey released on Tuesday, although still having a net favorability rating of -18 overall.
But he is now now seen as a polarising character. Many party members, who ultimately decide who represents them in leadership positions, are unlikely to pardon him for his involvement in the ouster of former prime minister Boris Johnson.
Theodore Johnson
After a mutiny among his cabinet and Tory MPs, which was precipitated by Sunak and other members of his floundering administration resigning after months of controversy, the former premier departed office early last month.
Since then, there has been widespread speculation that Johnson may try a return, despite the fact that few people initially believed it would be possible this soon after receiving multiple strong clues from him.
A portion of Conservative MPs and the party continue to support the ever-jovial Brexit leader, but his reputation among the general public has been seriously tarnished by his scandal-plagued three-year term.
According to the YouGov survey conducted on Tuesday, the 58-year-old is far more well-liked than Truss. But around two-thirds of those surveyed thought poorly of him.
Since retiring, Johnson has maintained a low profile, delivering a paid lecture in the US last week but making no mention of his opinions on the present difficulties afflicting the UK.
He was said to have supported Truss in the summer leadership race, however Dominic Cummings, a former senior assistant who is now one of his fiercest detractors, suggested it was because he felt her term would be terrible and short, opening the door for his comeback.
Jonathan Hunt
The Tories’ most recent two leadership elections had the new finance minister for Truss running as a candidate. Johnson defeated him in the 2019 election’s final run-off, and he came in last in the first round of MP elections this year.
The former foreign secretary has been thrust back into the spotlight by his appointment to the second-most important position in the administration, and his solid performance thus far has boosted his status.
Some say that Hunt, an ex-entrepreneur who has the greatest backing from the moderate sector of the party, might emerge as a capable candidate for unity as Conservative MPs plan Truss’s removal.
