The jostling to choose Boris Johnson's successor is officially underway.
Boris Johnson resigned as the leader of the Conservative Party on Thursday, triggering a search for a new British prime minister.
Former British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak announced his leadership bid on Friday with a campaign video in which he promised to confront the difficult economic backdrop with "honesty, seriousness and determination", rather than piling the burden on future generations.Mr Sunak was made chancellor of the exchequer in early 2020, and was praised for a COVID-19 economic rescue package, including a costly jobs retention programme that averted mass unemployment.
"I'm putting myself forward in this leadership election because I want to tell the truth," she wrote in The Times newspaper."What's missing is an intellectual grasp of what is required to run the country in an era of increased polarisation, protectionism and populism amplified by social media," she wrote.The chair of parliament's foreign affairs committee, and a former soldier who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, has also put his hat in the ring.