If not Kevin McCarthy for US House Speaker, then who else?

Another name pitched for Speaker was Representative Jim Jordan, a conservative firebrand from Ohio. Mr Jordan, 58, received only six votes in the first round, but then consolidated support from all of Mr McCarthy’s detractors in the next two rounds. But the congressman, who is in line to assume chairmanship of the powerful House Judiciary Committee, insists he does not want the job and spoke in favour of electing Mr McCarthy on Tuesday.