By Ben Kerrigan-
Former Uk prime minister, Boris Johnson, may be making a come back to power, as he enlists himself for prime ministerial candidacy, after Ms Truss was unceremoniously thrown out of power.
Mr Johnson and Mr Sunak are leading the polls as favourites to replace Truss who dramatically quit yesterday after succumbing to mounting pressure from disgruntled mps over her fragile and unsustainable policies.
She is the shortest-serving prime minister in British history.
The newly-appointed Chancellor Jeremy Hunt rules himself out,
The Daily Telegraph quoted an ally of Mr Johnson as saying he could offer an “olive branch” to Mr Sunak, his former chancellor whose resignation contributed to his downfall.ut Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt are seen as contenders
Allies of Boris Johnson had already been on standby the moment she was confirmed as his successor, berating her as ”lacking empathy and not being very bright” .She eventually fell on her face, and right out of no.10.
Mr Johnson has expressed confidence that he is the candidate with the best chance of winning another election for the Conservatives.
Johnson was forced out of power after it emerged he had hired an mp who had multiple complaints against him about inappropriate groping, yet took no action. Prior to that, he was the fall guy from lockdown party during the heights of national lockdowns in 2020.
A maximum of three candidates will be able to stand in the leadership contest after party chiefs decided hopefuls needed the support of 100 colleagues to get on the ballot. MPs will vote on the final two candidates before Tory members are given the final say, the 1922 chair said
Allies of the former UK prime minister – who only three months ago resigned himself– believe he will stand in the leadership contest that will follow the resignation of his successor, Liz Truss.
A number of Johnson’s allies have made the case that Johnson could be a unity candidate who could bring stability to the country, despite being forced to quit in July after a series of scandals made his position untenable.
Another MP who supported Johnson in 2019 said he was the only candidate who could comfortably win over both Conservative MPs and members of the Conservative Party.
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Johnson’s closest allies said he was being actively lobbied in the hours after Truss’ resignation speech, with MPs making the case to him that he represented the party’s best shot at stability in the medium term.
One Johnson ally, Brendan Clarke-Smith, told Sky News he thought Johnson would “potentially” be interested. “We need someone who can come in, we need somebody who can bring people together, somebody who actually has got that mandate. So a mandate from people in the last general election, a mandate from party members and somebody actually who can get this party going again, get us winning elections again,” he said.
“The only person that I think that ticks all those boxes is Boris Johnson.”
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James Duddridge, a minister in the Department for International Trade, said he supported a Johnson comeback. “I hope you enjoyed your holiday boss. Time to come back. Few issues at the office that need addressing,” he tweeted.
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