The race to replace Theresa May as Conservative party leader and Prime Minister is now well underway.
The Conservative Party is mobilising to replace Theresa May as prime minister.
The prime minister has hemorrhaged support among her MPs in recent days following her decision to delay Brexit and her ill-advised speech blaming MPs for the ongoing political crisis in the United Kingdom. Plans to replace her are already developing fast with both wings of the party mobilising behind likely successors.
"There is an acceptance that it has to be a Brexiteer, so for moderates the question is who is the Brexiteer going to be. Or who the least bad one is," one Conservative party official told Business Insider.Moderate Conservatives believe that their preferred candidate, Work & Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd, is not likely to stand, but will be a"kingmaker" in deciding which Brexiteer becomes party leader.
"It's so s*** that Amber doesn't have a big majority and Ruth [Davidson, leader of the Scottish Conservatives] isn't down here," they added. "Liz Truss — I don't necessarily think she will be leader — but she's developed a real niche as a champion of free markets. People didn't take it seriously when she started doing it but they respect her now.A senior figure in the Conservative party's moderate wing predicted that the Tories would suffer an exodus of members and spend years in opposition if it elected former Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab as its leader.
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