The Conservative Party is about to pick its third leader since the last general election in 2019. And Boris Johnson is back in the mix, among others.
By Luke McGee, Rob Picheta and Christian Edwards, CNN The resignation of Liz Truss on Thursday after a disastrous six-week premiership has set the ball rolling on the race to be the next Conservative Party leader.
People are also reading… But a fresh election is no certainty, even as Britain prepares for its fifth leader in just over six years. The candidates to replace Truss will need at least 100 nominations from Conservative MPs, Brady said. Requiring 100 endorsements to proceed in the race effectively narrows the field of potential candidates to a maximum of three.
Two more years?"The Tories cannot respond to their latest shambles by yet again simply clicking their fingers and shuffling the people at the top without the consent of the British people," Starmer said in a statement Thursday.
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