Ahead of the first round of voting, we examine the chances of each of the eight candidates
The freshly minted chancellor of the exchequer is a quicksilver politician. On July 7th, barely one day into the role, he turned on Boris Johnson, telling the prime minister who had appointed him that he must resign. Mr Zahawi arrived in Britain from Iraq, aged 11, as a refugee unable to speak English. His prominent family—his grandfather had been governor of the central bank, his father a major businessman—fled persecution from Saddam Hussein's regime.
Mr Zahawi has experience running things: he set up YouGov, now a leading pollster, in his garden shed. MP for Stratford-on-Avon since 2010, his political career finally took off when, as parliamentary under-secretary, he headed the world's first mass rollout of covid-19 vaccines. In 2021 that secured him promotion to Mr Johnson’s cabinet as education secretary.
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