The public would favour Theresa May as next Prime Minister (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

David Cameron’s resignation with no obvious successor has left a lot of people wondering who will be our next Prime Minister.

As figurehead of the Vote Leave campaign Boris Johnson was considered by many to be amongst the front runners.

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However, his prominent role in the lead up to the EU referendum debate and then his relative absence afterwards may be indicative of his standing in the Tory leadership race.

And according to a YouGov research, the public narrowly favour Theresa May ahead of the former London mayor for next PM.


The polling is close (and we all know close polls guarantee nothing) but the Home Secretary comes in at 19% to Boris’ 18%.

Tory leadership contest: Theresa May leads Boris Johnson amongst general public https://t.co/9Urf2tbO7Q pic.twitter.com/0BvK20dLNz — YouGov (@YouGov) June 27, 2016

The difference is even starker when it comes to Conservative voters, where May has a lead of 31% to 24%.

Leadership odds Boris Johnson 10/11

Theresa May 15/8

Stephen Crabb 10/1

Andrea Leadsom 14/1

Liam Fox 14/1 BetFair

In fact, the pattern is repeated with both Labour (18% to 9%) and Lib Dem (31% to 13%) supporters and it is only with UKIP voters that the Vote Leave campaigner has a sizeable lead (48% to 9%).



Perhaps less surprisingly, Boris is not a favourite amongst Remain supporters (26% to 4%) but is winning with those who voted Brexit (32% to 18%).

The research also shows, the public are far less in favour of a third option.

Michael Gove is at 5%, George Osborne, Sajid Javid and Liam Fox at 3% and Stephen Crabb at 2%.

Our next PM? (Picture: ANDREW MATTHEWS/AFP/Getty Images)

Jeremy Hunt, who after the junior doctors saga would have to do a lot of convincing to change some voters’ minds, has said he is ‘seriously considering’ a bid for leadership.

Hunt on Tory leadership Jeremy Hunt told ITV: ‘They are not going to choose someone who does not accept the verdict of the British people,” he told the ITV morning show. ‘But I think now we’ve got to move beyond that argument. We are leaving the EU and we have got to have a discussion about the kind of country we want to be. ‘What I am making the argument for is what I call the ‘Norway-plus’ model. Norway is a member of the single market, they have full access to the world’s largest single market. ‘They get all the jobs and prosperity and we need that as a great trading nation. But what we need is something else, which is a sensible restriction on the free movement rules which have created the immigration that has worried a lot of people.’

But from the 1% who would favour him, it does not look like a popular choice.

The 1922 committee has said a new Prime Minister is expected to be in place by September 2.

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