Boris Johnson
The frontrunner, who has now won the support of 114 MPs, was educated at Eton and Oxford, and had a Norland Nanny as a child. He is a proponent of grammar and free schools.
One of his first policy pitches was to spend at least £5,000 on every secondary school pupil in a pledge to even out the ‘yawning funding gap’ between pupils in London and the rest of the country.
He has come under fire though for divisive rhetoric, such as comparing veiled muslim women as looking like letterboxes and bank robbers, and called black people 'piccaninnies' with 'watermelon smiles'.
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