The New Statesman Daily The best of the New Statesman, delivered to your inbox every weekday morning. World Review The New Statesman’s global affairs newsletter, every Monday and Friday. The Crash A weekly newsletter helping you fit together the pieces of the global economic slowdown. Morning Call Quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. Sign up for The New Statesman’s newsletters Tick the boxes of the newsletters you would like to receive. “I’m always ready to serve the country in whatever capacity.” Even Robert Buckland, another MP best suited to the backbenches, yesterday refused to rule out a run: “Who knows,” he told the BBC. Braverman has declared she is running in what can only be described as a roundabout attempt to avoid being sacked from the next leader’s cabinet. There is also Suella Braverman, a political unknown until she was unexpectedly made Attorney General by Johnson in 2020. Then there are the people who are unexpectedly suggesting they too might run, from Grant Shapps to Kemi Badenoch. There is the first rank of possible contenders, the ones of whom you may have heard – Rishi Sunak, Sajid Javid, Ben Wallace, Liz Truss, Nadhim Zahawi all of whom were in the cabinet last week and whom I list in that order deliberately – and there is the second rank, from outside cabinet – Penny Mordaunt, Tom Tugendhat, Jeremy Hunt, and Steve Baker. Never served in the cabinet? Fear not, neither have many of the party’s currently declared candidates. Are you too running for the Tory leadership? Power is lying in the streets, and every Tory MP you have never heard of is wondering whether to pick it up.
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