so what happens now? liz truss will remain in downing street until next friday at the latest. a new leader will be named next week the third prime minister in the space ofjust two months. who could it be? whoever it is will need the backing of at least 100 tory mps by monday afternoon to make the final two. the chancellor, jeremy hunt, has already confirmed he will not stand. but borisjohnson, who was forced out of number 10 just six weeks ago, could be preparing to attempt a comeback. liz truss former leadership rival rishi sunak is the bookmakers favourite. leader of the house of commons penny mordaunt is also likely to stand. as is the former home secretary suella braverman who resigned yesterday. and kemi badenoch, currently international trade secretary, could also be in the running.
them will want to be pretty sure that they can conjure up the support of 100 colleagues before they publicly say that they are going to put themselves forward. extraordinary stuff thank you so much. the past few weeks have seen a collapse in the liz truss s personal ratings in opinion polls, and in a trend that s spread alarm and panic among conservative mps, the party s poll ratings have tumbled as well. 0ur north of england correspondent danny savage was in the yorkshire town of wetherby at lunchtime, as the news of liz truss s resignation came through. lunchtime in the black bull in wetherby. this was quite the conversation stopper. i am resigning as leader of the conservative party. brilliant. no surprise, but what now? and what of the consequences of this? ifeel quite ashamed, to be honest. we were talking about this earlier saying, anybody from outside the united kingdom would
carry on in office until the next general election which could be as late as january 2025, but politically it will be very tricky. now, were it to be borisjohnson he could say, well, look, iwon now, were it to be borisjohnson he could say, well, look, i won the last election as conservative leader so i have a mandate. if any of the other candidates, it will be a hard argument for them to make. wear it to mrjohnson incidentally, he ll have a hard act, convincing his party and the wider country that he should be coming back so soon after having been booted out as white chris, for now, many thanks, chris mason with the latest analysis in downing street. the past few weeks have seen a collapse in the prime minister s personal ratings in a range of opinion polls, and in a trend that has spread alarm and panic among conservative mps the party s poll ratings have tumbled as well. our north of england correspondent danny savage was in the yorkshire town of wetherby at lunchtime as the news of
in the back there s no leadership. they stabbed boris. i liked him as a character. yes, he made mistakes, but he had a majority and was voted for. we are a great country, we have been a great country and we still will be if we could just rally behind some decent leadership. liz truss time as prime minister will be remembered by many for rocketing interest rates and mortgage deals being pulled after the mini budget. after that mini budget. you sense the housing market won t miss her. if you could sit down with senior tory politicians now around your desk, in wetherby, what would you say to them? sort yourselves out for goodness sake. let s have some confidence, a policy that is going to be acceptable, notjust to the country, but to the rest of the world. in local cafes, politics was the talk of the town. i did say to marianne earlier on,
bull in wetherby. this was quite the conversation stopper. i am resigning as leader of the conservative party. oh, brilliant. no surprise, but what now? and what are the consequences of this? what a mess. ifeel quite ashamed, to be honest. we were talking about this earlier, saying anybody from outside the england would be laughing at us and would be very disappointed. we have got to give the country confidence back. there is a lack of confidence here. otherwise people who would normally vote conservative, like myself will think very differently if they don t get it sorted. as the latest tory bubble burst, people in this conservative constituency are frustrated and fed up. wanted. ..some stability, please. the tories stab everybody