So I started a new thread to talk about the next leaders challenge
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David Cameron has said he intends to stand down as Conservative Party leader and prime minister following the UK's decision to leave the EU. His successor as leader will be elected by party members with the result on 9 September. Five Conservative MPs have been confirmed as candidates.
So who is up for the challenge
Theresa May
One of the longest-serving home secretaries in history, who turns 60 later this year, has long been mentioned as a potential future leader of the party.
Mrs May is one of Whitehall's toughest and shrewdest operators. In the fallow years after the Conservatives' 1997 landslide defeat, she famously said the party was referred to by some as the "nasty party".
The MP was praised for her unflappable handling of the often problematic Home Office brief - regarded as something of a poisoned chalice - although her wider political appeal has yet to be tested.
While coming out for Remain, Mrs May - who revealed in 2013 that she suffers from type 1 diabetes - maintained a relatively low profile during the campaign, meaning that she could potentially appeal to MPs looking around for an "anyone but Boris" candidate.
Stephen Crabb
One of the rising stars of the Conservative Party, and the first Conservative cabinet minister for generations to sport a beard, the 43-year-old has launched a leadership bid on a joint ticket with Business Secretary Sajid Javid.
Launching his campaign, he promised to heal the "bad blood" caused in his party by the referendum. The former Welsh secretary, who was born in Scotland, also spoke of the need to bring the United Kingdom together following the result, and said controlling immigration was "a red line" in Brexit negotiations.
Mr Crabb has a back story to which many Tory MPs are attracted. Raised by a single mother on a council estate, the Welsh politician has spoken openly about his family's dependence on benefits and the importance of work, education and his Christian faith in promoting self-reliance and economic independence.
After becoming an MP in 2005, Mr Crabb was promoted to the Cabinet in 2014 as Welsh secretary. His profile went up a notch earlier this year when he took over as work and pensions secretary following Iain Duncan Smith's resignation.
It remains to be seen whether this opportunity comes too early and whether his support for Britain to remain in the EU will hold him back.
Liam Fox
The former defence secretary, 54, has thrown his hat into the ring for a second time. Mr Fox, a former GP, came a close third in the 2005 leadership contest which saw David Cameron emerge as the victor.
But his cabinet career was cut short in 2011 following a lobbying row, which led to his resignation. Mr Fox was found to have breached the ministerial code over his working relationship with his friend and self-styled adviser Adam Werrity.
He has been a forceful voice for the UK leaving the EU on the backbenches but also for Conservative unity after the poll.
BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said Mr Fox would pitch himself as the Brexit candidate, but not the divisive Brexit candidate - and contrasts that with Boris Johnson, whom he would argue would be divisive because of his role in the EU campaign.
Michael Gove
Unlike Mr Johnson, the 48-year-old has gone out of his way in the past to put a limit on his personal ambitions, even going so far as to suggest that he was not equipped to do the job of prime minister.
The former Times journalist, who entered Parliament in 2005, has been a close personal friend of David Cameron and George Osborne and was a key figure in the party's modernisation that led to its return to power in 2010.
He subsequently became a reforming, if controversial, education secretary and is regarded as one of the party's intellectual heavyweights.
The justice secretary's decision to back the Leave side was one of the key turning points in the campaign and although it is said to have strained his relations with Mr Cameron, he is still respected on both the Remain and Leave wings of the party and is likely to be a pivotal figure in the coming months.
Andrea Leadsom
The 53-year-old former banker and fund manager was one of the stars of the Leave campaign, giving a composed performance as she took her place alongside Boris Johnson in its TV debating team.
A former district councillor, she became MP for South Northamptonshire in 2010 and - after serving as a junior Treasury minister and as a member of the Treasury select committee - she was made a junior minister in the energy and climate change department in May last year.
Announcing her decision to stand for the party leadership, she tweeted: "Let's make the most of the Brexit opportunities!"
Who has ruled out a leadership bid?
Boris Johnson
The former mayor of London was immediately installed as the bookies' favourite to be the next occupant of Downing Street when David Cameron announced he was standing down.
But he shocked supporters and foes alike when he used an event at which he had been expected to announce his candidacy to say that he would not be standing
Jeremy Hunt
The health secretary, who joined Parliament in 2005 and is politically close to David Cameron, was "seriously considering" running for the leadership of the Conservative Party.
But on the day nominations closed he announced he would be backing Theresa May's candidacy instead.
Nicky Morgan
The education secretary had said she is "actively considering" whether to throw her hat into the ring, saying it would "be good" to have a woman in the final two on the ballot paper but has now decided to throw her weight behind Michael Gove
George Osborne
The chancellor has said he will not enter the contest to succeed David Cameron as Conservative leader, saying he does not believe he is the right person to unite the party.
John Baron
Mr Baron, who represents Basildon and Billericay in Essex, said he had been asked to consider running for Tory leader and was taking soundings but was not among the official candidates when nominations closed.
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