Nominations will officially open and close on Tuesday, with a new prime minister set to be installed when parliament returns from the summer break on 5 September.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaving Downing Street, London, for a central London visit on Monday, 11 July 2022.The new UK prime minister to replace the outgoing Boris Johnson will be announced on 5 September, the ruling Conservative party said on Monday, with 11 hopefuls currently vying for the job.
Tory MPs will whittle the current list down to a final two through a series of ballots, with the worst-performing candidate eliminated after each round, before party members choose the winner. Among those running are Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid, whose departures as finance minister and health minister sparked the wave of resignations.
Mr Javid said that with Britain facing a soaring cost-of-living crisis, energy price hikes and the war in Ukraine, there was a need more than ever for "competence" in the country's leaders. His parliamentary majority allowed him to do just that but his premiership was hit by waves of scandal, not least about lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street that saw him fined by police.
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