The cool but rich chancellor of the exchequer. The Australia-loving foreign secretary. It’s a who’s who of possible Johnson replacements. | By Latika Bourke in London. ToryMp
, was considered a top candidate when Johnson faced a no-confidence vote in June.
Despite campaigning for Britain to remain in the EU, she is popular with Conservative Party members for striking post-Brexit trade deals including with countries like the US, China andTruss was promoted to foreign secretary despite thin achievements and has fashioned herself as a patriot and freedom-lover. She is the closest to Boris in appealing to the working-class, Brexit-voting and England-loving sort of Tory that Sunak’s mega-wealth could turn off.
The health and social secretary – until he resigned this week – Javid was born in Britain to Pakistani parents. He began investing in shares at the age of 14 and made a career in banking, becoming managing director of Deutsche Bank. Britain’s supply of weapons for the Ukrainian war effort has no doubt improved his stocks, as did his department’s management of evacuations from Afghanistan when the Taliban took over.
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