Rishi Sunak will face two opponents in the Tory leadership contest: Liz Truss and Boris Johnson
The Prime Minister and his allies will use the Tory leadership contest to cast the former chancellor as a traitor.
ByElizabeth Truss was prime minister from 6 September 2022 to 25 October 2022. Her tenure in the job, marked by unrest in financial markets, was the shortest in British history. She studied philosophy, politics and economics at Merton College, Oxford. She is married and has two children, and was elected as Conservative MP for South West Norfolk in 2010. In 2014 David Cameron appointed her as Environment Secretary, and, at 38, she was the youngest female member of his cabinet. After that she became the first female Lord Chancellor and the first female Conservative foreign secretary.
The Prime Minister and his allies will use the Tory leadership contest to cast the former chancellor as a traitor.
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ByThe new leader will struggle to regain control of a party still in the grip of Boris Johnson’s illiberal populism.
ByThe Tory leadership candidate’s promises to make a success of Brexit leave plenty of opportunity for friction.
ByOpinion in Keir Starmer’s party is divided on the weakest possible Conservative leader.
ByThe darling of the right’s support will be crucial in the race to become the next Prime Minister.
ByThe Foreign Secretary gained just seven votes despite the endorsement of high-profile Brexiteers.
ByBy pumping out Soviet-style propaganda in favour of the Foreign Secretary, the tabloid is once again doing Boris Johnson’s bidding.
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ByFrom Brexit to front-line photo ops, admirers and critics reveal the many contradictions of Whitehall’s “disrupter-in-chief”.
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ByThe Prime Minister papered over the ideological cracks in the Tory party but they will reappear with his successor.
ByThe Foreign Secretary needs to burnish her Brexiteer credentials for a leadership bid.
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ByThe claim that direct challengers to a leader never win the crown is a myth.
ByThe Foreign Secretary’s politics are shared by the Tory membership and she appears hungrier for the role than her rivals.
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