The government will be in a state of paralysis if Boris Johnson stays in No10 until his successor is chosen, senior Tories have warned
Two Tory MPs have so far announced their wish to be the next party leader.
And on Wednesday night - before Mr Johnson even stepped down - the attorney general Suella Braverman confirmed that she too would be a candidate. In a speech outside No10, watched by wife Carrie and a crowd of MPs and staffers, he said: "It is clearly now the will of the parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader of the party and therefore a new prime minister."
"I'm immensely proud of the achievements of this government in getting Brexit done, to settling our relations with the Continent... reclaiming the power for this country to make its own laws in Parliament.
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