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Right-wing Conservative MPs are reportedly plotting to replace Rishi Sunak with Penny Mordaunt — but is this is the right move?

Penny Mordaunt, Priti Patel, Suella Braverman Grant Shapps, Kemi Badenoch - runners and riders to replace Rishi Sunak (Getty)

Rishi Sunak is facing yet more internal friction in his party, but would replacing him alter the Tories’ fate?

With the Tories lagging in the polls, speculation is mounting over Sunak’s future and the party’s prospects — and it appears even the prime minister’s seat is at risk.

Now right-wing Conservative MPs are reportedly plotting to replace him with Penny Mordaunt, aiming to swerve defeat in upcoming elections.

The plan, “100 days to save Britain,” comes after Dr. Dan Poulter’s defection dealt a blow to the PM.

Mordaunt has dismissed the alleged plot as “codswallop,” but if the Westminster whispers are true, a clutch of Conservative big beasts are busy positioning themselves to take over from Rishi Sunak, as our chief political commentator John Rentoul writes.

Do you think ousting Sunak so close to a general election would be a mistake? Is Penny Mordaunt a sensible replacement? And if not, who would you like to see take the reins of the Conservative Party?

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