After a chaotic week in British politics, the scramble is now on to fill the seat of prime minister, after Boris Johnson was forced to resign. Members of his Conservative Party have laid out the rules for the election of a new leader. Whoever it is, his successor will have an overflowing inbox. From the cost of living crisis to the continued fall-out from Brexit. And as The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports, Conservatives will want to show that their time in 10 Downing street will not be dominated purely by scandal.
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