“Last Christmas, I was spending time getting trade deals over the line,” she said. Her prominence is already causing tension among supporters of the chancellor, Rishi Sunak – the other pre-eminent candidate to replace the prime minister. The other obvious leadership contender is Jeremy Hunt, who came a distant second to Johnson in the last leadership contest. Whoever takes over is going to be more sober, serious-looking and sounding like a prime minister. And you take away at a stroke Keir’s USP, which is: ‘I look like a prime minister and I’m not chaotic.’”

Source: The Guardian December 12, 2021 19:43 UTC