Back-stabbing and Brexit: the Tory leadership race - podcast

With Britain’s political system heading for crisis and a possible disorderly Brexit, Conservative MPs are plotting their routes to Downing Street to replace Theresa May. The Guardian’s Rowena Mason discusses the candidates not letting a crisis go to waste. Plus, David Smith on US presidential hopeful Joe Biden’s very bad week

As Conservative ministers try to come up with a solution to the Brexit crisis engulfing UK politics, some of those same MPs are vying with each other for Theresa May’s job.

Europe has haunted Tory leaders for decades and it now looks set to dominate the next leader’s tenure. With at least 10 candidates weighing up their chances, the Guardian’s deputy political editor, Rowena Mason, examines the favourites with Anushka Asthana.