Tory Politicians Try To Replace Johnson ex WSJ
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LONDON—The race to succeed British Prime Minister
Boris Johnson intensified on Monday, with several senior Conservative
Party politicians pitching themselves with pledges to stick to his
approaches toward Brexit and illegal migration, while looking for ways to
stoke economic growth.
Former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak, who helped spark the wave of resignations by ministers and aides that forced Mr. Johnson to step down, has taken an early lead by gaining at least 30 public endorsements from other Tory politicians.
Arrayed
against him are Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and Chancellor of the
Exchequer Nadhim Zahawi, plus eight other candidates, all hoping to be
in the top two after several rounds of voting by Conservative lawmakers
before Parliament’s recess in late July. To formally enter the contest
candidates must get 20 other lawmakers to back them when nominations
open Tuesday. The first round of votes is on Wednesday.
Foreign Secretary Liz
Truss has said she would run for the Conservative Party leadership.Photo:
Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
The eventual two finalists will then tour the country seeking to win a majority of the votes from the Conservative Party’s 150,000 members. The winner is expected to be announced on Sept 5. Mr. Johnson will stay on as prime minister until his successor is chosen.
The 11 declared candidates are all expected to sell a basic message: that they support many of the policies implemented by Mr. Johnson, including a plan to send illegal migrants to Rwanda and to seek to revise the U.K.’s divorce deal from the European Union, to remove customs checks on goods heading between Britain and Northern Ireland..............
Mr. Johnson—who remains popular with Tory party members—said Monday he would hold off on endorsing any candidate.
Few of the candidates have Mr. Johnson’s brand power with British voters. Mr. Sunak, however, became well known in the U.K. during the pandemic when he rolled out a popular job-support program..........
The candidates will be appealing to just a slice of the electorate—party members who pay a fee to belong. They are more likely to be male, older and less ethnically diverse [ actually British ] than the British population at large.
The field of candidates includes more ethnic minorities than any previous Conservative leadership campaign. Only three of the candidates are white men.
Former Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch, who is Black, could prove key in the race after she received the backing of several high-profile members of the party, including former Housing Minister Michael Gove [ Zionist ].
Mr. Sunak is
the son of Indian immigrants born in Africa who moved to the U.K. in the
1960s. Other candidates include former Health Minister Sajid Javid, who was
born in England to Pakistani migrants. Home Secretary Priti Patel, who was
born in London to Ugandan-Indian parents, is also weighing a run.
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The
Wall Street Journal puts a view from
America. It is quite perceptive.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-crowded-conservative-race-for-u-k-prime-minister-11657554243
Rory Stewart, Teaching At Yale Comments On Johnson's
Departure
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In the wake of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s July 7 announcement that
he would resign his office under pressure from his party and cabinet, Yale News
spoke with Rory Stewart, a former U.K. secretary of state for international
development and Conservative Party MP who recently taught politics as a senior
fellow in Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs.
Johnson’s resignation will end a scandal-plauged [ sic ] tenure that involved controversies about Brexit, renovations to the prime minister’s residence, parties at 10 Downing Street during COVID-19 lockdown, and lobbyists, among others.
Here, Stewart, who also taught international relations and has previously contended for prime minister and the mayoralty of London, addresses Johnson’s downfall, challenges ahead for the U.K., and measures Stewart says are needed to ensure that future British prime ministers respect the rules governing their conduct. Interview condensed and edited.
What do you make of Boris Johnson’s decision to step down?
Rory Stewart: It is a huge relief. Boris Johnson was doing the most
extraordinary damage to our government and our unwritten constitution. He is
a frightening example of what a ruthless person with no respect for the
unwritten rules of our system can achieve. And I’m afraid it’s a wake-up
call. It will force us to think about the hazards of relying on an unwritten
constitution and to strongly consider adopting a written one.
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Stewart knows the ground. He says
Johnson is crooked; fair comment. The idea
that a written Constitution would clean
things up is fanciful. Americans will not be silly enough to believe it.
Conservative Party leadership
Election In 2022 ex Wiki
The 2022 Conservative Party leadership election was an internal
party election that decided the
leader of the British Conservative Party and the next
prime minister of the United Kingdom following
Boris Johnson's resignation as prime minister and party leader on 7
July.[1]
In the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election, Johnson was elected to succeed Theresa May after she had been unable to secure a majority for her Brexit withdrawal agreement. After having lost his working majority to defections and his own suspensions of rebel members of Parliament, Johnson called a general election on a platform of completing the UK's withdrawal from the European Union. In that general election, the Conservative Party won their biggest majority in Parliament since 1987, and Johnson was able to pass a revised version of May's withdrawal agreement.
In response to the coronavirus pandemic, Boris Johnson and his government had instituted public health restrictions, including limitations on social interaction, that Johnson and some of his staff were later found to have broken. The resulting scandal – one of many in a string of political controversies that characterised Johnson's premiership – severely damaged his personal reputation. Johnson won a confidence vote by Conservative MPs in June 2022. The situation escalated with the Chris Pincher scandal in July 2022, and between 5 to 7 July, over 60 government ministers, parliamentary private secretaries, trade envoys, and party chairmen resigned – the largest mass resignation in British history. Many previously supportive MPs called for Johnson to resign. This brought about a government crisis, culminating on 7 July, when Johnson announced that he would resign as party leader. Johnson also announced that he would remain as prime minister until a successor was elected.[2]
Voting took place between 13 July and 2 September. After a series of MP ballots, the list of candidates was narrowed down to Liz Truss, the Foreign Secretary and the minister for women and equalities under Johnson's leadership, and Rishi Sunak, who served as the chancellor of the exchequer until 5 July. On 5 September, Truss was elected to lead the party, and assumed the premiership on 6 September.[3][4] In her victory speech, Truss thanked Johnson and stated that her new government would cut taxes and deal with the energy crisis.
Conservative Party
Leadership Candidates
| Kemi Badenoch | black woman |
| Suella Braverman | Pakistani woman |
| Jeremy Hunt | Brit |
| Penny Mordaunt | Brit, served Queen & Country |
| Rishi Sunak | Indian |
| Liz Truss | Brit woman |
| Nadhim Zahawi | Pakistani |
| Rehman Chishti | Pakistani |
| Sajid Javid | Pakistani |
| Grant Shapps | Jew |
