LONDON: Around a dozen British Conservative members of the parliament (MPs) will formally throw their hats into the ring in the fight to replace Theresa May as party leader and Prime Minister, with her former foreign secretary Boris Johnson seen as the runaway favorite.

Nominations to succeed May—who resigned on Friday as head of the ruling Tory party following her failure to deliver Brexit—open at 10 a.m. (5 p.m. in Manila) and close at 5 p.m. (12 midnight in Manila).