Let’s hear now from Boris Johnson’s former deputy prime minister Dominic Raab, who is backing Rishi Sunak as the next PM.
Sunak is yet to declare he’s running – but Raab is “very confident” he will.
He tells BBC Breakfast the economy is the “critical issue” and “Rishi had the right plan in the summer and I think it is the right plan now”.
Raab thinks Johnson could eventually make a return to front-line politics, but says it’s impossible to do so while he faces a parliamentary investigation into whether he misled MPs over Covid rule-breaking.
“There’s going to be oral testimony from people from No 10 and he’s going to have to give oral testimony; I just can’t see how the new PM could give the country the attention and focus that it needs,” he says.
“We cannot have another episode of the Groundhog Day of the soap opera of Partygate.”
Source: BBC