Theresa May – and the rings opened to your successor officially. A whole series of possible successors has been drawn up: an Overview of the candidates.

Everything collapse Boris Johnson

From the start, the today 54-Year-old at the top of the Brexit advocates and can, therefore, be the support of the hardliners among the Conservatives is relatively certain. Also, his striving, even in the number 10 Downing Street to collect is not a Surprise.

Political experience, brings Johnson enough: After his training in the boarding school Eton and studied at Oxford, he first worked as a Journalist for the “Daily Telegraph”.

in 2008, was elected Johnson to the mayor of London, for eight years he retained the office. He then, in may’s first Cabinet was Secretary of state.

As a politician Johnson was, among other things, by its directness, partly with Blows below the belt line. Hillary Clinton, for example, he once used as a “sadistic nurse”, the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, he wrote in a poem titled Sex with a goat.

However, despite all of the missteps – for the Tories, Johnson might be the favorite, which scared her off and disappoint Brexit-could prevent voters most likely to back the party.

Boris Johnson has both Bürgermeitser of London, as well as foreign Minister rarely taken a sheet before the mouth.

Dominic Raab

He sat by himself in Brussels at the negotiating table, to Raab joined in November 2018, as a Protest against the agreed-upon Deal between May and the EU Post-Brexit-a Secretary of state.

Also Raab conceded the position of Minister, and one or the other blunders – such as ridicule for the statement that he did not know how important the English channel for trade between the UK and the European continent was.

as well As Boris Johnson applies Raab as a staunch Brexit-trailer, in the event of his election to the Prime is also a No-Deal-Brexit appears as a probable scenario.

as a Protest against may’s Deal with the EU, Jeremy Hunt, as Brexit-was the Minister resigned.

Jeremy Hunt

Once-a Brexit-opponents, leaving the 52-Year-old today behind the EU. Some speculate that turnaround have only served to be able to sometime in the hat for the office as a Prime in the Ring toss.

After nearly six years as health Minister, he was followed by 2018, Boris Johnson, to the Post of foreign Minister.

Hunt comes from a wealthy home, attended a prestigious school and studied at Oxford – a typical British politician’s career. The married father of a son and two daughters sitting since 2005 as a Conservative in the British house of Commons.

As foreign Minister Hunt has already had to some critics, even from the EU – for example, for the comparison of the European Union with the Soviet Union.

First against, then for the Brexit: Jeremy Hunt.

Michael Gove

He had already tried once to become Premier in 2016, after the resignation of David Cameron. At the time, May came to him in the way.

In, Cameron had Gove for many years the Minister of education, to the then Premier of his close friend and godfather of his own son from the office had to pull it off. In the dispute over higher pensions no longer had Gove to the bogeyman of the teachers, until he seemed to finally for the Department for Education portable.

in 2016, then the next blow for Cameron: Gove contrary was the course of the long-time friend and to the side of Boris Johnson in the Promote exit from the EU.

In the second Cabinet of Jan Gove received the Post of Minister of health.

For Michael Gove, it is not the first attempt to be Prime Minister.

Sajid Javid

Professionally, it was for today, 49-Year-olds in the economy, as Manager of the German Bank. Since 2010, he sits in the British house of Commons, 2014 the Post of Minister of culture followed. In the past year, May, appointed him to Minister of the interior.

This Javid was the first politician with a Muslim Background, who made it under the Top 4 of the political Institutes of great Britain: Prime Minister, Chancellor of the exchequer, Foreign and interior Minister.

In the Ministry of the interior, Javid, and earned a hard reputation, especially in the political debate about a British woman, who is the wife of a IS-trailer. Javid decided to withdraw the pregnant woman’s citizenship and refuse the return. As the newborn child died, while the mother was in a Syrian refugee camp, was Javid for his decision in massive criticism.

Sajid Javid became the first politician with a Muslim Background in the Top 4 of British politics.

Andrea Leadsom

Only on Wednesday evening Leadsom had your resignation as Chairman of the lower house and Responsible to Parliament questions to be announced – and thus possibly may’s decision for the own retreat accelerated.

Also Leadsom had already tried in 2016 in the battle for the office of the Prime Minister to enforce. May himself had brought to the Cabinet first as Minister of the environment, then as as the “Leader of the House of Commons”.

Also Leadsom is regarded since the beginning as a decisive Brexit-advocate.

Only resignation now, the candidacy of: Andrea Leadsom.

Amber Rudd

With the Master in your study of history in the bag Rudd initially started as an investment banker in London and also in New York.

in 2010, she was first elected as a Deputy to the lower house. In 2015, they appointed David Cameron as energy Minister into his own Cabinet. Under May, Rudd was then Minister of the interior, as the successor of Esther McVey, the brings also as a possible May-the successor to the game.

The political debate to the “Windrush”Generation, and brought them finally to the case: To include the Generation of hundreds of immigrants, the forces came from the Caribbean after the Second world war, at the request of the British government as the work to the UK. Some of these migrants or their descendants should have been denied the payment of pensions or medical care or even deportation threatened to be.

at the end of April 2018 Rudd handed in her resignation.

Amber Rudd was considered in her time as Minister of the interior, as a great supporter of Mays.

Penny Mordaunt

The career path of the in may to the office of the Secretary of defense moved Mordaunt part is unusual: In young years an assistant to a magician, then, the 46-Year-old worked in hospitals. Also in the field of transport and the state lottery company was Mordaunt once worked.

in 2014, it then went into politics: first as Secretary of state, then in 2015 for the first Time as defense Minister, followed by the Post of Minister of labour and the Ministry for development aid. Also Mordaunt is considered Brexit-follower.

Penny Mordaunt is considered Brexit-advocate.