How to become the next prime minister

摘要

ADVISERS HAVE been hired, funds raised and sweeping speeches made. The Daily Telegraph, the house journal of Conservatism, features a buffet of op-eds by ambitious Tory mps. Theresa May might still be resident in 10 Downing Street, but the race to replace her has already begun. Sajid Javid, the home secretary, is being advised by a former Vote Leave executive and has taken to giving speeches nodding to his gritty upbringing. Boris Johnson has declared a wish to reunite Britain via a "proper Brexit" and has scooped up nearly £140,000 ($183,000) in donations since late last year. Jeremy Hunt, meanwhile, insists that he is simply getting on with being foreign secretary, even as reports circulate that he has up to 100 mps willing to support him should he stand.