Tory leadership race: Who could replace Liz Truss as prime minister?

Liz Truss has announced she volition resign, which means determination volition present beryllium different enactment predetermination to determine who becomes the adjacent Conservative person and premier minister.

The contention to regenerate her is expected to beryllium completed by the extremity of adjacent week.

No-one has yet confirmed that they volition stand, but present are immoderate of the imaginable candidates.

Rishi Sunak ran to regenerate Boris Johnson arsenic person earlier this summertime and made it to the last 2 on with Ms Truss, having won the astir enactment from Conservative MPs.

During the run helium warned that his rival's taxation plans would harm the economy, but his connection failed to entreaty to enactment members and helium mislaid by 21,000 votes.

Mr Sunak lone became an MP successful 2015, for the North Yorkshire constituency of Richmond. Few extracurricular Westminster had heard of him, but helium was chancellor of the exchequer by February 2020.

He rapidly had to grapple with the coronavirus pandemic, spending immense amounts of wealth trying to support the system afloat during lockdown.

This didn't travel easy to a antheral who saw himself arsenic a debased taxation and walk Conservative connected the Thatcherite helping of the enactment but it did boost his popularity.

With conscionable a week to take a caller leader, galore of the contenders are apt to beryllium acquainted faces, and nary much truthful than the antheral who was premier curate conscionable weeks ago.

Boris Johnson was forced to denote his resignation successful July, aft a wide revolt by ministers and MPs. It followed months of rows implicit Downing Street lockdown parties and different controversies.

The MP for Uxbridge faces an probe by the Privileges Committee into whether helium obstructed the Commons by telling MPs that lockdown rules had been followed astatine No 10. He and others were subsequently fined for Covid breaches.

However, helium inactive has allies some successful Parliament and the enactment rank successful general. Long-term protagonist Nadine Dorries has argued helium should return, arsenic helium received a mandate from the British nationalist successful the 2019 election.

In 2019, Penny Mordaunt made past by becoming the UK's archetypal pistillate defence caput - a earthy acceptable for a naval reservist who had already served arsenic equipped forces curate nether David Cameron.

Previously, she had been champion known extracurricular Westminster for her quality connected ITV's personage diving amusement Splash! to rise wealth for charity.

MP for Portsmouth North since 2010, Ms Mordaunt is simply a erstwhile caput of the Conservative Party's younker helping and was a property serviceman for William Hague erstwhile helium was enactment leader.

She stood successful the past Conservative enactment contest, and secured beardown enactment from her chap MPs but conscionable missed retired connected making it the last two.

After backing Ms Truss, she was appointed person of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Privy Council - which meant she presided implicit the Accession Council for the caller king.

While galore starring Tories disagreement sentiment wrong the party, the defence caput is wide seen by chap MPs arsenic a harmless brace of hands.

Mr Wallace has drawn expanding attraction since Russia's penetration of Ukraine, arsenic the UK made an aboriginal determination to enactment Kyiv with weapons and training.

Despite his absorption to Brexit, Mr Wallace has been a cardinal protagonist of Boris Johnson and was rewarded with a furniture station successful 2019.

Before becoming a politician, helium served arsenic a worker successful Germany, Cyprus, Belize and Northern Ireland, wherever helium thwarted an IRA effort to transportation retired a weaponry onslaught against British soldiers.

After Mr Johnson stood down, determination had been suggestions Mr Wallace could tally - peculiarly arsenic helium was topping polls tally by the Conservative Home website - nevertheless helium opted to enactment Ms Truss instead, describing her arsenic "authentic".