The Race to Replace Boris: What Next?
Bookmakers are touting Penny Mordaunt as the woman most likely to be the next prime minister.
Bookmakers are touting Penny Mordaunt as the woman most likely to be the next prime minister.
The 1922 Committee, responsible for drafting the rules, has revealed that 20 nominations from fellow Tory MPs is enough for a candidate to progress to the next round.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson plainly calculated that it would be more dignified to quit than carry on an unwinnable fight.
Yet again, Prime Minister Boris Johnson finds himself in trouble. After a fresh scandal—involving predatory sexual misbehaviour and a Tory MP recently promoted to the
Signatories to the Convention must “abide by the final judgement of the court in any case to which they are parties.” Plans for an updated Bill of Rights offer no way around the fact that final rulings from Strasbourg have binding force in UK law.
Johnson lifted talking points from the wokesters’ playbook, calling Putin’s invasion of Ukraine “a perfect example of toxic masculinity” and urging the world to install “more women in positions of power.”
Conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic should draw enormous encouragement from this decision, with the take-home lesson being that history need not be just a sequence of victories by the increasingly noxious Left.
The Prime Minister has vowed to continue as leader, claiming he understands that his government must “listen to what people are saying.”
The truly significant fact is that Boris Johnson performed worse in his confidence vote than Theresa May did in hers over three years ago.
Although her probe was non-criminal, the one magistrate to which Gray’s findings are subject is the court of public opinion.