Who’s in and who’s out in the race to become the next occupant of 10 Downing Street – and is there a frontrunner now that Ben Wallace has pulled out?
The jockeying began even before Boris Johnson announced his resignation and since then his former employees have been busy announcing their intentions to stand on social media and in broadsheet newspapers.
Who has said they are running?
Former chancellor Rishi Sunak was the first big name to enter the race and will be seen as one of the favourites though the race is wide open with a crowded and growing field of candidates.
Until the past few months, Mr Sunak was seen by many Tory MPs as the frontrunner to succeed Mr Johnson.
But after introducing a number of policies – such as a national insurance rise – which went down badly with Tory MPs, his popularity has taken a knock.
He was also fined for attending the PM’s birthday party during lockdown, compromising his ability to separate himself from partygate.
The revelation that his wife, the multimillionaire Akshata Murty, held non-dom…
