Eight candidates have been selected to compete to replace Boris Johnson as UK PM and head of the Conservative Party, the committee in charge of organizing the race revealed on Tuesday. Graham Brady, a Conservative MP and the chair of the 1922 Committee, confirmed the list of names at a press briefing in Westminster.
The candidates include former equalities minister Kemi Badenoch, Attorney General Suella Braverman, former health secretary Jeremy Hunt, trade secretary Penny Mordaunt, former chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee Tom Tugendhat, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, and former education secretary Nadhim Zahawi, who took over as chancellor following Sunak’s resignation last week.