The field of candidates to replace Boris Johnson as UK leader becomes even more crowded, with 11 MPs now vying for support.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's potential replacements have rushed to differentiate themselves from an increasingly crowded field.
"I am the only major candidate who has not served in Boris Johnson's government," he told The Telegraph newspaper. Several public figures including Paralympian Jonnie Peacock also publicly asked to be taken out of the video. She was heavily criticised by lawyers after the government sought to break international law over post-Brexit trade rules in Northern Ireland.Liz TrussForeign Secretary Liz Truss's outspoken comments about Vladimir Putin have seen her accused of inflaming tensions between Russia and the UK.
The former banker was urged to resign by LGBT groups over an alleged delay in banning so-called gay conversion therapy while she was equalities minister."People are exhausted by platitudes and empty rhetoric," she wrote in The Times newspaper.Nadhim Zahawi said that it would be an "honour" to serve as PM.
"I am going to make a commitment today that if I am prime minister I am going to publish my accounts annually."
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