Race to replace Johnson heats up as big names target 10 Downing Street

Sajid Javid, the former Health Minister, and former Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who lost to Johnson in the 2019 leadership runoff, used interviews in a newspaper to announce their campaigns

The race to replace Boris Johnson as UK prime minister is getting more crowded, and the big beasts are muscling in.
 

Sajid Javid, the former Health Minister whose resignation last week helped spark Johnson’s abrupt downfall, and former Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who lost to Johnson in the 2019 leadership runoff, used interviews in the Telegraph late Saturday to announce their campaigns. Both put cutting taxes, a red-meat topic for the Conservative Party core, at the heart of the respective agendas.

In separate interviews with the newspaper, they said they’d cancel a planned rise in corporation tax and reduce it to