Just 45 days after Liz Truss took charge of the Conservative Party and became the fourth Downing Street tenant in six years, the Tories will begin a new battle for leadership after the resignation of what is already the Prime Minister with the shortest term in UK history. The internal election of the formation will be held next week, and the numbers that sound the most like successors are those of Rishi Sunak, who lost against Truss in the previous contest, and Penny Mordaunt, current leader of the party in the House of Commons. However, there are also those who mention as options Jeremy Hunt, current finance minister, who took over the reins of this portfolio last week, or Ben Wallace, defense minister with a low profile who remained neutral in the leadership race. between Truss and Sunak and whose role in relation to the war in Ukraine has been widely applauded. Many considered him the favorite to succeed Boris Johnson, but he himself decided that he was not going to run. It is not known if, given the new scenario, he has changed his mind. Related News standard No Liz Truss resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after only 45 days in office Ivannia Salazar The Prime Minister announced on Thursday her resignation as Prime Minister and as leader of the Conservative Party. In a week, the 'tories' will choose a new leader It would not be surprising that she presented the candidacy of her Suella Braverman, the Minister of the Interior until Wednesday and whose resignation ended up precipitating the resignation of Truss. There are also voices that are willing to open the doors to Boris Johnson, who in his farewell speech as prime minister compared himself to the Roman statesman Cincinnatus, a Roman dictator who is said to have abandoned his small farm to rescue an army, mission which he accomplished by defeating the enemy in a single day, and spent little time in Rome before returning to his plow, from which he emerged a second time to retake control of the Roman state. Doubts about Johnson It remains to be seen if Johnson's mention about Cincinnatus was an evening about his intention to return to fight for a second season in Downing Street, but media such as 'The Times' have already ventured to say yes, that he presented his candidacy. The newspaper asserts that sources close to the former prime minister confirmed that for Johnson this is a "matter of national interest" and that he is convinced that he can change the course of the Conservative Party. According to a YouGov poll, one in three stories, 32 percent, preferred Johnson as Truss's successor. 23 percent go for Rishi Sunak and 10 percent go for Ben Wallace.
