Who will succeed Boris Johnson?
If the name of the next British Prime Minister is not yet known, the list of suitors continues to grow.
Three new candidates thus entered the race on Saturday evening, including the former Minister of Health Savid Javid, which brings the number of applicants to eight.
In addition to Savid Javid, new finance minister Nadhim Zahawi and former foreign and health minister Jeremy Hunt, who faced Boris Johnson in 2019 for the leadership of the Conservative party, were candidates.
They were preceded by the current British Secretary of State for Transport.
Ex-finance minister Rishi Sunak is one of the heavyweights entering the race.
Two days after the announcement of Boris Johnson's resignation, his potential successors therefore continue to reveal their intentions.
The competition that will open for the head of the Conservative Party and therefore Downing Street, the Tories being the majority in the House of Commons, could however last several months.
The Secretary of State for Transport, Grant Shapps, announced his candidacy by promising a "strategic" and "sober" government.
An experienced MP who made his debut in the cabinet of former Prime Minister David Cameron in 2010, he is not one of the favorites in the polls.
No more than three other candidates also declared, the former Secretary of State for Equality Kemi Badenoch, the Attorney General Suella Braverman and the deputy Tom Tugendhat.
Rishi Sunak in favorites
On the other hand, Rishi Sunak, 42, was the first major suitor to launch his candidacy on Friday, in a particularly polished video, to the point of fueling suspicions of long-prepared candidacy and treason.
Long a favorite to enter Downing Street if Boris Johnson fell, he found himself significantly weakened a few months ago after the revelation of the advantageous tax status enjoyed by his wealthy wife.
The announcement of his candidacy, to which several MPs immediately rallied, apparently created a rebound: a poll on Friday for Channel 4 of 493 party members gave him the Conservatives' favorite candidate (25%), ahead of Foreign Minister Liz Truss (21%) who has not yet declared herself.
Still, the faithful of Boris Johnson have not digested his attitude, the
Financial Times
evoking on Saturday a "huge anger" towards him within the team of the outgoing Prime Minister.
Rishi Sunak had been one of the first to quit government on Tuesday night, apparently without even telling Boris Johnson, with Health Minister Sajid Javid bleeding the Brexit hero politically fatally.
The state of the party also suggests a very open competition, in which the Secretary of State for Foreign Trade Penny Mordaunt, who did not declare herself, and Sajid Javid are also serious competitors.
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