Boris Johnson has announced his resignation as leader of the Conservative Party. We explain what might happen next
promise to stand down as leader of the Conservative Party and Britain’s prime minister has brought into the open the behind-the-scenes jostling to. Britain can change its prime minister without the bother of a general election. Indeed, that is quite common. After Theresa May resigned between elections in 2019, Mr Johnson saw off other Tories to succeed her, as Mrs May did after David Cameron quit three years before.
Candidates must be a Conservative MP, and be nominated by at least eight colleagues. Party rules set out two stages of the competition. First, candidates vie for the approval of fellow Tory MPs. In consecutive rounds of voting, the candidate in last place is eliminated each time, until only two remain. Their names are then put forward to the roughly 180,000The contest that took Mr Johnson to power lasted around two months. Some ministers and MPs have made it plain that they want to.
The details of the contest will only become clear after the 1922 Committee of backbench MPs meets on July 11th, but such a drastic change to the rules seems unlikely. No matter when the voting takes place, however, the starting gun has already been fired. Suella Braverman, the attorney-general, and Tom Tugendhat, a backbencher who is chairman of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, have already said they will run. Expect more hopefuls to pipe up during the coming days.
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