The most prominent names nominated to head the British government in the event of Johnson’s resignation

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson clings to power at the present time, while resignations continue within his government, and there is no one who is considered the most likely to succeed him, even if names are put forward.

Finance Minister Rishi Sunak, the first Indian to hold this position, resigned from the government on Tuesday in a surprising move.

His resignation puts him among the favorites to succeed Johnson, after his popularity waned due to his wealth and his wealthy wife’s tax arrangements sparking resentment in the midst of a purchasing power crisis.

Sunak, whose grandparents emigrated from northern India to the United Kingdom in the 1960s, was an analyst at Goldman Sachs and later worked for speculative funds. He became an MP in 2015.

The 42-year-old advocate of Brexit, Sunak, took over as finance minister in 2020 but has been criticized for insufficient measures to curb price hikes.

Health Minister Sajid Javid also submitted his resignation from the government on Tuesday. He had submitted his resignation in 2020 from the position of Minister of Finance.

Javid, 52, voted in 2016 to remain in the European Union, but later joined the Brexit camp. He is the son of a Pakistani immigrant bus driver who became a famous banker before entering politics.

52-year-old Defense Secretary Ben Wallace is more popular than ever amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Although he has always denied being interested in leading the Conservative Party, he is seen among Conservative ranks as an outspoken and competent figure.

Penny Mordaunt, 49, Secretary of State for Foreign Trade, was a figure in the 2016 Brexit campaign and has since worked on negotiating trade deals.

Mordaunt, a reserve element in the Royal Navy, is an eloquent orator. According to some opinion polls, she has recently increased in popularity among the Conservatives and is seen as a difficult figure if the prime minister resigns.

Former Foreign and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, 55, lost to Boris Johnson in the 2019 election to lead the party.

Hunt, a friend of Boris Johnson and David Cameron at Oxford who taught English in Japan, is one of the few people to openly defy the prime minister in last month’s no-confidence vote. However, he is not considered a strong personality.

Her outspokenness and willingness to meddle in the culture wars made Secretary of State Liz Truss very popular with the Conservative Party base.

Truss, 46, was given the sensitive position as a reward for her work as Minister of International Trade. In this position, the free trade specialist who voted to remain in the European Union before moving to the other camp struck a series of post-Brexit trade deals.

The new finance minister, Nazim Al-Zahawi, is well respected among the British people after the success of the vaccination campaign against the Covid epidemic that he oversaw.

He was born in Baghdad to Kurdish parents in June 1967 and immigrated to the United Kingdom at the age of nine. He founded the market research firm YouGov in 2000 and resigned after ten years to enter politics and was elected MP.

In September 2021, he was appointed Minister of Education.

The chairman of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, Tom Tugendhat, was the first to announce that he intended to run in the event of Johnson’s resignation.

Tugendhat, 49, a former member of the British Army, served in Iraq and Afghanistan.