It is not yet clear whether Boris Johnson could become his own successor. Insiders from the environment of the British prime minister who has resigned from the scandal leak that he already has the necessary number of supporters. In any case, he skipped his Caribbean vacation.
British ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who left office after numerous scandals, is reported to have enough support in his group to run again. Both the BBC and the broadcaster Sky News reported in the afternoon, citing an insider source close to Johnson, that Johnson had the threshold of 100 supporters and could compete with that. However, this differs significantly from the counts of the BBC and other media, which have only come to around 50 public supporters for Johnson. However, the 58-year-old has not yet officially announced his candidacy.
The scandal politician had returned with his family from an abbreviated Caribbean vacation in the morning. So far he had only scattered allies, he was ready for a candidacy. To run for the top job, candidates need the backing of at least 100 MPs. Nominations can be received until Monday afternoon. If more than two candidates create the necessary threshold, the circle should be reduced when voting in the parliamentary group. If there are two finalists after that, the party base can vote in an online vote during the week. The decision could also be made earlier than Friday if a candidate withdraws voluntarily.
Ex-Finance Minister Rishi Sunak is currently the favourite, the first possible candidate to have more than 100 conservative MPs behind him. However, he had not made his candidacy official by the afternoon. Also in the running is Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Penny Mordaunt.
"These are difficult times and we need leadership up to the task, so I support Rishi," said former Vice Premier Dominic Raab. Sunak has a clear plan to restore financial stability to the UK and regain confidence in the UK economy after the financial market chaos.
Sunak is credited by many with warning of the very chaos that outgoing Prime Minister Liz Truss' economic policies have unleashed on financial markets during the election campaign against her. Sunak was already the faction favorite in the House of Commons when he ran to succeed Johnson, but was defeated by Truss in the party's grassroots vote. Truss resigned on Thursday as the shortest-ever prime minister after her economic policies proved unsustainable and she lost two key cabinet mates.
