Penny Mordaunt could be the next U.K. prime minister. Few know who she is.

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In recent polling, most respondents could not name her when shown a photo.

,” described by the publisher as “about restoring national pride and positive politics.” It has soared in recent days onto the Amazon UK best seller list. Former Labour Party Prime Minister Tony Blair blurbed it: “Uplifting and highly readable.”The British press and her fellow Tories — both friend and foe — are rushing to supply their own details to Mordaunt’s biography.

Mordaunt’s team responded that she “had nothing but respect” for Frost and that “Penny will always stick up for Brexit and always has.” And when Defense Secretary Ben Wallace decided not to run, she overtook the field as the runaway favorite with Conservative Party members, who will pick the winner in the last stage of the contest.suggested that if she could make it to the final two, she’d win. She’d be Britain’s third female prime minister, following in the footsteps of Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May.Yet even in Tory circles, she is something of a vague figure.

She became a member of Parliament in 2010 and served for 85 days as defense secretary before she was sacked by Johnson for backing his rival in the 2019 leadership contest.In this race, she has pitched herself as a Brexiteer who will return the party to its roots. The Conservative Party, she said at a recent event, had recently “lost its sense of self.”

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