Penny Mordaunt

UK regulators have fined Barclays £50mn for allegedly “failing to disclose certain arrangements” about the bank's controversial Qatari fundraising fourteen ...

[Purchase a Team or Enterprise subscription for per week You will be billed per month after the trial ends](https://enterprise.ft.com/en-gb/services/group-subscriptions/group-contact-us/b/?barrierName=anon_barrier&segmentId=9fbe4fe1-9315-3d67-cc6d-2bc7650c4aea&ft-content-uuid=853e9320-c029-4e6b-b9ef-6d958c44a62d) [Purchase a Print subscription for 10.21 € per week You will be billed 99 € per month after the trial ends](https://subs.ft.com/spa3_uk3m?segmentId=461cfe95-f454-6e0b-9f7b-0800950bef25&utm_us=JJIBAX&utm_eu=WWIBEAX&utm_ca=JJIBAZ&utm_as=FIBAZ&ft-content-uuid=853e9320-c029-4e6b-b9ef-6d958c44a62d) [Purchase a Trial subscription for 1 € for 4 weeks You will be billed 65 € per month after the trial ends](/signup?offerId=41218b9e-c8ae-c934-43ad-71b13fcb4465&ft-content-uuid=853e9320-c029-4e6b-b9ef-6d958c44a62d)

A tweet interpreted by social media users to be an official campaign advert calling for Penny Mordaunt to be Britain's next prime minister is not connected ...

[here](https://twitter.com/OneIsAmused/status/1583089401847943168)) : “Your performance standing in for Truss during the urgent question, showed you as cold, sneering and condescending. Her official account is [here](https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10160187813114941&set=a.10150175115684941), [here](https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=419746077008331&set=a.245073901142217) and [here](https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10160281658541635&set=a.10155390019376635)). [here](https://twitter.com/pennymordauntpm/status/1583077277079740418)), which has amassed more than 1,500 shares, was uploaded by an account named ‘Penny Mordaunt for PM’ and reads: “This is make or break time. We need to get our act together, deliver for the country and win the next General Election. [here](https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-pm-truss-threatens-disciplinary-action-against-rebel-lawmakers-2022-10-20/)).

Mordaunt, a former defence secretary, was ousted from the year's first Tory leadership contest in the fifth round, losing out to Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss.

She previously came third in the last leadership contest behind Truss and Sunak in second place. Mordaunt is not considered the frontrunner but has about 19 public endorsements. Mordaunt, a former defence secretary, was ousted from the year’s first Tory leadership contest in the fifth round, losing out to Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss.

Her colleagues passed on her offer to lead the party last time around. This time, the former trade secretary has a lot more to offer.

Look to Mordaunt for the answer. Yet the animosity between the Johnson and Sunak camps makes a Mordaunt candidacy appealing for many. It was a set-piece moment of high drama and with the world watching, she proved perfect for the task. Mordaunt’s support tanked, Liz Truss overtook her to reach the final two of the contest and the rest is history. Mordaunt emerged as a dark horse candidate in the race to succeed Johnson when polling showed she was the most popular among Tory members. In the wake of the disastrous Liz Truss premiership, that proved more prescient than she could know.

British minister Penny Mordaunt on Friday launched her bid to replace Liz Truss as prime minister, becoming the first Conservative lawmaker to announce they ...

Click here to find out more about our partners. Find out more about how we use your information in our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. You can select 'Manage settings' for more information and to manage your choices.

British minister Penny Mordaunt on Friday launched her bid to replace Liz Truss as prime minister, becoming the first Conservative lawmaker to formally ...

in 2014, where celebrities learnt to dive. Largely unknown outside Westminster prior to taking an early opinion poll lead among Conservative Party members earlier this year, some of the public may have first seen Mordaunt on the reality TV show Splash! Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com

Penny Mordaunt stood in for UK Prime Minister Liz Truss temporarily in the House of Commons on Monday. Now she wants the job full time.

British minister Penny Mordaunt on Friday launched her bid to replace Liz Truss as prime minister, becoming the first Conservative lawmaker to announce they ...

Click here to find out more about our partners. Find out more about how we use your information in our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. You can select 'Manage settings' for more information and to manage your choices.

If Truss resigned, we were told, the Tory party would behave in the same grown-up fashion that it did when it elected Michael Howard as leader unopposed in 2003 ...

If Johnson does win, there will inevitably be a big fallout – with many asking how the 1922 Committee came to acquire the power to set important aspects of the rules of a leadership election (number of nominations required, electronic voting) at whim. If there is such a deal, we might then expect Mordaunt to concede and Sunak to become leader and PM without the need to ask the membership. Rumours that Ben Wallace is to come out in favour of Johnson, on the other hand, suggest that he doesn’t have any part of it.

A tweet interpreted by social media users to be an official campaign advert calling for Penny Mordaunt to be Britain's next prime minister is not connected ...

[here](https://twitter.com/OneIsAmused/status/1583089401847943168)) : “Your performance standing in for Truss during the urgent question, showed you as cold, sneering and condescending. Her official account is [here](https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10160187813114941&set=a.10150175115684941), [here](https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=419746077008331&set=a.245073901142217) and [here](https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10160281658541635&set=a.10155390019376635)). [here](https://twitter.com/pennymordauntpm/status/1583077277079740418)), which has amassed more than 1,500 shares, was uploaded by an account named ‘Penny Mordaunt for PM’ and reads: “This is make or break time. We need to get our act together, deliver for the country and win the next General Election. [here](https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-pm-truss-threatens-disciplinary-action-against-rebel-lawmakers-2022-10-20/)).