No-one with any sense or ambition is going to want to replace Truss when there remains a large cabal of ERG members in the Parliamentary Party and the Tories are likely to be decimated at the next General Election anyway.
A serious contender (if Truss hasn't already threatened an immediate GE if she's unseated) would want to launch a leadership bid after a GE, with a rejuvenated Parliamentary Party shorn of the ERG members who have been the cause of all the current problems - providing that person retains their seat.
Ergo, any person selected by Tory MPs as a replacement for Truss is destined to be merely a caretaker PM and not someone likely to turn around the ship of state within 2 years.
Anyone in the current Cabinet is far too tainted by association with Truss.
Theresa May again? Possibly - even if only to get one over on Johnson.
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