Names in the frame and their odds...

The Cabinet Insiders

RISHI SUNAK

The Chancellor won plaudits for his furlough package during lockdown, but may have lost support for plans to increase taxes. Favourites rarely win Tory leadership contests.

LIZ TRUSS

7/4

4/1

The Foreign Secretary is the darling of the Right after her spectacular success with trade deals and robust approach to China and Russia. She is expected to argue for tax cuts but her past support for Remain could be a problem.

MICHAEL GOVE

14/1

The Levelling-up Secretary’s supporters are already touting him as the competency character, but there are question marks over whether he can overcome trust issues with colleagues.

SAJID JAVID 16/1

The Health Secretary has been seen as a safe pair of hands since taking over from Matt Hancock, but angered colleagues over pushing through Covid passports and threatening the jobs of thousands of NHS workers with vaccine mandates.

PRITI PATEL

25/1

The Home Secretary is a strong candidate on the right of the party with her law and order reforms and was one of the Spartan Brexiteers who held out against Theresa May, but has lost support over Channel migrants.

NADHIM ZAHAWI 25/1

The Education Secretary won plaudits as the vaccine minister, but may need to rely on being a compromise candidate.

DOMINIC RAAB 40/1

The Deputy PM was seen as the second choice to Boris Johnson for Brexiteers in 2019 and did well covering for the Prime Minister when he was in hospital with Covid, but was strongly criticised for his handling of the Afghan crisis.

JACOB REES-MOGG 40/1

Once the darling of the Brexiteer Right, he is still loved by many in the party, but seen as too eccentric by some. Others believe he compromised too much over Covid measures to stay in Government.

Backbench outsiders

JEREMY HUNT

7/1

The former foreign secretary and health secretary came second to Boris Johnson in 2019 and is seen as a competent candidate not afraid to make tough decisions, as he did when he took on the doctors over the seven-day week.

TOM TUGENDHAT

12/1

A name regularly attached to a leadership bid, the Foreign Affairs Select Committee chairman has supporters, but was a Remainer and has no front bench experience.

STEVE BAKER 33/1

A former Brexit minister who is better known for his work organising the powerful European Research Group of Brexiteers and Covid Recovery Group questioning pandemic policy is popular with party members, but may not be top of the list for fellow MPS.

SIR GRAHAM BRADY 50/1

Already dubbed “the clean break candidate”, the popular chairman of the powerful 1922 Committee of Tory back-benchers has already seen off a bid by Boris supporters to have him replaced and has been a vocal critic of

Covid policy.

JOHNNY MERCER 66/1

The former Army officer, who was sacked as veterans ninister after making it clear he wanted to resign on a point of principle over Northern Ireland, has been a regular critic of the Prime

Minister ever since, but lacks experience.

TOBIAS ELWOOD 66/1

The Defence Select Committee chairman came to prominence in the Westminster terrorist attack for his efforts to try to save PC Keith Palmer. He is another critic of Boris Johnson with leadership ambitions, but

was also a Remainer.

THERESA MAY 66/1

The former prime minister was forced out over Brexit policy and the failure to win a majority in 2017, but has since made a quiet comeback on the back benches and been praised by former critics for taking on the Government over Covid restrictions.

ESTHER MCVEY 80/1

Another “clean break” candidate, the former Cabinet minister, leadership contender and television presenter who founded the Blue Collar Movement has been a strong critic of Covid policy and restrictions.

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