Conservative MP Penny Mordaunt has announced she is standing to become the next party leader and prime minister.
The Portsmouth North MP and international trade minister announced her bid for the leadership on Sunday morning following Boris Johnson 's resignation earlier this week.
In a video promoting her candidacy, she said: "Our leadership has to change. It needs to become a little less about the leader and a lot more about the ship."
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Mordaunt's announcement came just hours after former health secretaries Jeremy Hunt and Sajid Javid put their names forward for the leadership.
The video features a voiceover which says: "we must choose [our next leader] with solemnity and wisdom" going on, "we must think of those who came before and the generations to come".
Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Boris Johnson both feature briefly in the three-minute clip.
During their launches Hunt and Javid pledged to slash corporation tax in a bid to lure MPs and Tory Party members.
It comes after two serving Cabinet ministers, Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi and Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, revealed their intention to run for the top job in the space of an hour.
While, backbencher Tom Tugendhat has pointed to his experience in the military and special forces while selling himself as the country's next prime minister.
There are now nine candidates who have put their names forward to be the next Prime Minister.
Who is running to be next Prime Minister?
- Rishi Sunak
- Sajid Javid
- Jeremy Hunt
- Nadhim Zahawi
- Penny Mordaunt
- Grant Shapps
- Suella Braverman
- Kemi Badenoch
- Tom Tugendhat
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