alright, less than 24 hours after Liz Truss was forced
out as UK's prime minister, the race is on to find her
successor, Trusses runner up Rishi Sunak is a likely
candidate along with former Prime Minister Boris
Johnson and House of Commons Leader Penny mordant Tr
had a controversial 44 days in office to say the least
filled with questions about her staying power. At one
point during your tenure in office, a head of lettuce.
You see there on the screen with the blonde wig was
projected on Westminster Palace and the brash english
tabloid, the daily star livestreamed lettuce, wond
which would have a longer shelf life trust or the
lettuce. Ultimately the vegetable one correspondent,
Giles Gibson is in London with the latest on who will
fill the Prime Minister seat. Giles. Good to see you
again. So, we know all about Boris Johnson obvious
What can you tell us about the other two front runne
Well, look, I think at this stage we can at least rule
out that that now famous or infamous letters, but
otherwise we're looking at Rish soon as you say, one
of the front runners here already, despite the fact
that he hasn't even declared that he's actually in the
race. He is a former Chancellor of the Exchequer, a
former finance minister here in the U. K. He was in
charge of steering the UK economies through some very
difficult waters during the coronavirus crisis. And
he's also got a lot of credit recently because he
actually predicted during the last leadership contest
over the summer. This economic turmoil that we've see
in recent weeks off the back of Liz truss is economic
strategy that now infamous mini budget as for Penny
Mordaunt. She has cabinet level experience. She's a
former Defense Secretary, altho was in that position
pretty briefly. She's also popular amongst the
Conservative Party members, amongst the grassroots. But
look right now, there is just one name that is just
looming over this race. And that is Boris johnson,
everybody here in Westminster in the heart of London,
really just waiting to find out if he's going to run or
not And tell us more about just kind of the mood or the
reaction so far, it's been a little less than 24 hours,
but the mood of the country after the resignati
Well, look, I'm stood here in Parliament square right
outside the Houses of Parliament. You've got statues
some of the most important figures in British po
history here, you know, Winston Churchill, David, Lloyd
George. And yet in recent weeks, recent months, it has
felt like that, that famous shiny black door at 10
Downing Street has been turning into a bit of a
revolving door, take a listen right now. I think a lot
of people, the public would want a general election and
I think that's very fair since they've been think six
now, seven prime ministers in four years and they're
all conservative. So I think it's time for a big
change. I think they need to look at the whole process
because this is, I don't know how many three or four
p.m. In the last three years or even less than that. So
something is not right. And the people of England don't
deserve that. And look, remembe as well that we have a
new monarch here in the UK king Charles. And he is
already on his looking at being on his second prime
Minister in the space of just a very, very short range
so far. So what's a deadline for nominees on monday
That's just a few short days from now? How busy will
Conservative Party be members be over the weekend?
Yeah, well, the way this is going to play out the first
real hurdle that potential candidates are going to face
is getting 100 of their Conservative Party collea
in parliament mps to support them. They need to get
those names together. Those 100 plus names by monday
afternoon, local time here in the UK bearing in mind
that there are only 350 ish Conservative m in
Parliament. That's a pretty hig bar for them to have
to hit just to even get onto the ballot. In theory, the
top two names in the race would then go on to a contest
amongst the Conservative grassroots members amongst the
members of the party. But look, I was speaking to a
Tory mp last night and he was telling me that his
working theory is the that this is all going to be over
by monday night next week. Because he was saying his
theory is that there will be two names who can get 100
plus conservative mps to support them. And then the
second place person will face a lot of pressure to step
down immediately so that this leadership contest can be
wrapped up and some stability can be brought back to
the party as well as the country.