Trade minister Penny Mordaunt has joined the Tory leadership race, becoming the ninth person to enter the field.

“Our leadership has to change. It needs to become a little less about the leader and a lot more about the ship,” she said, going on, “I’m Penny Mordaunt, and I’m ready to serve as the next leader of the Conservative Party”.

She shared a glossy three minute video on social media, announcing her bid. In it a voiceover says “we must choose [our next leader] with solemnity and wisdom” going on “we must think of those who came before and the generations to come”.

The video says the leadership contest will bring “a focus on policy and what we do”, adding, “but there must be focus on what we are”.

Other candidates to have thrown their hat into the ring include Rishi Sunak, the former chancellor, Nadhim Zahawi, the newly appointed chancellor, Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, and the ex-health secretaries Jeremy Hunt and Sajid Javid.

Tom Tugendhat, the former soldier and chair of the foreign affairs select committee, was the first person to announce their bid, and the former equalities minister Kemi Badenoch and the attorney general Suella Braverman have also announced they will run.

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Other MPs expected to join the fray in the coming days include Priti Patel, the home secretary, and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.

Dominic Raab, the deputy prime minister, is understood to have ruled himself out of the race, as has former levelling up secretary Michael Gove, who was sacked by Mr Johnson ahead of his own resignation.

MP Ben Wallace, who was the bookies’ favourite to succeed Mr Johnson, has said he will not be standing.

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