Boris Johnson

A fast-tracked contest to find the next Tory leader and prime minister has kicked off hours after Liz Truss dramatically resigned as PM, barely six weeks ...

We need somebody who can unite the party, get us back in the polls and who can be a winner and Boris Johnson ticks all of those boxes." Mr Smith said: "We're looking at someone with a mandate with the general electorate, the membership, he's a winner. Her now-abandoned September mini-budget started the turmoil, sending financial markets into a tailspin. A first ballot will be held among MPs and the person with the lowest number of votes will be eliminated, if there are three candidates. Through Thursday morning, the number of MPs publicly calling for the prime minister to go doubled and Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the influential 1922 Committee - a group of backbench MPs, was summoned to No 10 to give her an update. Under party rules, leadership hopefuls will need to secure the support of 100 MPs to enter the contest. "I feel disappointed, shocked, I backed Liz Truss," he said, and apologised to the country for the "instability" caused. On Wednesday, her home secretary, Suella Braverman, resigned and a chaotic night with accusations of bullying during a vote in the House of Commons followed, sealing her fate. Mr Johnson, who is on holiday in the Caribbean, was forced to resign as Conservative leader in July following a string of scandals. Hopefuls need the backing of 100 MPs by Monday, with her successor likely to be announced by Friday at the latest. A handful of the former prime minister's biggest political supporters are pressing him to make a comeback. A fast-tracked contest to find the next Tory leader and prime minister has kicked off hours after Liz Truss dramatically resigned as PM, barely six weeks into the job.

Her resignation, which meant she becomes the shortest-serving Prime Minister in British history, has triggered another leadership contest. A new PM will be ...

Johnson ally and former Foreign Secretary Truss swept past former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak in September to become Britain's third female prime minister - and the last leader to meet with Queen Elizabeth II. The pro-EU prime minister decided to resolve the debate by calling for a nationwide referendum on Britain's membership in the bloc. With almost 52 per cent voting to leave and 48 per cent to remain, the 2016 referendum resulted in a divisive Brexit. He was the first sitting UK prime minister to be punished for breaking the law. The scandal, dubbed "partygate" by the British press, triggered a wave of disgust across Britain, especially among those who were not permitted to attend the funerals of loved ones who died during the pandemic. He said the government will need to save billions of pounds and there are "many difficult decisions" to be made before he sets out a medium-term fiscal plan on October 31. It was a tumultuous time mired in frustration in Brussels and discord in Westminster. Truss proved it true today, but the shakeup at the top is hardly an outlier in the recent history of Britain's Conservatives, whose latest troubles have been years in the making. Another, Steve Double, said of Truss: "She isn't up to the job, sadly." Truss' downfall was also hastened by the resignation on Wednesday of Home Secretary Suella Braverman. Whoever succeeds Truss will be the country's third prime minister this year alone. Truss, who said she will remain in office until a replacement is chosen, has been prime minister for just 44 days.

In unsurprising but nonetheless chaotic news, Liz Truss resigned as UK prime minister around 1.30am this morning (NZT). Horrifically, I was awake and ...

[Johnson is expected to stand](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/liz-truss-latest-news-resign-tory-mp-westminster-follow-live-gf7g23fxm) for the leadership. [odds-on favourites](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/20/next-prime-minister-odds-tracker-conservative-tory-leadership/) to replace Truss according to the Telegraph. Labour leader Keir Starmer has [called for a general election](https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-politics-63333233). The recent appearance of [Boris Johnson’s face in a chicken korma](https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/i-was-preparing-a-curry-and-saw-boris-johnson-staring-back-at-me/news-story/d02fc5a02be54370ee1059ab8fec767e) (you be the judge, it’s not really a Shroud of Turin moment for me), and a [YouGov poll](https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2022/10/19/most-tory-members-say-liz-truss-should-resign) of Conservative party members mean we can not rule out the return of BoJo. George Canning [held the previous record](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/20/liz-truss-joins-ranks-of-shortest-serving-world-leaders), serving for 119 days before dying of tuberculosis on August 8, 1827. Based on [a snap YouGov poll](https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2022/10/21/snap-poll-eight-ten-say-liz-truss-was-right-resign), three out of five Britons agree with him. To the local connection now and we don’t yet have a ruling on whether the [curse of the New Zealand prime minister visit](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/first-david-cameron-then-theresa-may-now-boris-johnson-pm-jacinda-ardern-john-key-visited-british-pms-just-before-trouble-came-for-them/GZ3PLWYG3BNRYJ2VKL7L4XA5YU/) applies in this situation. [The Daily Beast has held nothing back](https://www.thedailybeast.com/liz-truss-quits-as-british-prime-minister-after-just-44-days-in-office) in its reporting, writing “Just 44 days after arriving at No.10, Truss’ regime was officially killed off on Thursday along with the United Kingdom’s ability to pretend any longer that it hasn’t fallen into absolute kakistocracy.” In good news, [ the pound rallied](https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63326809) following news of the resignation. On Twitter, deputy political editor of The Guardian, Jessica Elgot shared the tweet carrying that news and [ said a Tory MP had sent it to her](https://twitter.com/jessicaelgot/status/1583092314846941184?s=20&t=3EA_Te2-tQaQinHXUgksCg) saying they would immediately defect to the Labour party if Johnson won. Sir Graham Brady, chair of the 1922 Committee has announced a very short timeframe to replace Truss. Horrifically, I was awake and immediately went to the Daily Star’s livestream to capture the exact moment the banner changed to proclaim that the lettuce had outlasted Truss. In the end the lettuce did outlast Liz Truss.

Boris Johnson and former finance minister Rishi Sunak were leading the potential contenders to replace British Prime Minister Liz Truss on Friday, ...

has now been very, very badly tarnished, and it may be very difficult to recover within the space of two years." [Truss quit](/world/uk/uk-pm-truss-threatens-disciplinary-action-against-rebel-lawmakers-2022-10-20/) on Thursday after the shortest, most chaotic tenure of any British prime minister after her economic programme shattered the country's reputation for financial stability and left many people poorer. Mordaunt is seen as a fresh pair of hands largely untainted by earlier administrations. Running in third is Penny Mordaunt, a former defence minister popular with Conservative Party members. He can turn it around again. With the Conservatives all but facing a wipe out in the next national election according to opinion polls, the race is on to become the fifth British premier in six years.

Former PM dominates debate as contest to replace Liz Truss begins, just six weeks after he left office.

They can’t just pass around being prime minister and being chancellor like it is some sort of game of pass the parcel. “Boris Johnson has the most astonishing set of skills but there are one or two weaknesses kicking around in that personality and they were fairly brutally exposed. Any new Tory leader would have “no mandate” to rule, she told Sky News. “They have done huge damage now to our economy, to our global standing in the world and it is time for a general election to choose a government who can provide the stability and the leadership that the country desperately needs.” Jacob Rees-Mogg on Friday became the first Cabinet minister to publicly back Johnson. “He is probably not the character to restore our reputation for the next two years because of that controversy.”

LONDON — Boris Johnson is mulling an astonishing political comeback. His enemies within the Tory Party are already plotting how to stop him.

But he warned of Johnson: “His premiership came to an end for a reason, which is that there were serious questions about competence, credibility, and ethics. Johnson’s allies argue that he is the only candidate with a mandate from the public thanks to the 2019 election. If there are three candidates for the leadership on Monday, Tory MPs will vote to whittle down the list to two. “He’s not stoppable,” a Tory MP who is critical of Johnson warned. “There can be no coronation of previously failed candidates.” As far as I’m concerned I’ll listen to my constituents — and their message was ‘bring back Boris’.” After meeting Thursday afternoon, Tory Party bigwigs unveiled a plan that presents an obstacle to the former prime minister. That would crown a new leader early next week — avoiding the need for a Tory members’ ballot entirely “The 2024 election will be super-tough,” one Tory MP considering their options noted. Johnson’s critics fear he will amass votes from the Tory right and then leapfrog that 100-MP threshold. and the Conservative Party.” “MPs are already saying they’d defect or resign the whip.

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson is among several British lawmakers trying to scoop up support ahead of a short, intense contest to become the country's ...

The new leader will be Britain’s third prime minister this year, and the Conservative turmoil is fueling demands for a national election. She was elected leader by the Conservatives early last month after a party election to replace Johnson. Lawmakers will vote to knock out one of those, and will hold an indicative vote on the final two. Mordaunt, who came third, is popular with the party grassroots. Nominations for a new leader will close on Monday afternoon, and candidates need the signatures of 100 of the 357 Conservative lawmakers, meaning a maximum field of three. His return would be a remarkable resurrection for a politician who is popular and polarizing in equal measure.

There are definitely 100 MPs desperate or committed enough to the former prime minister to set aside grievances over his potential return.

Last time she did well by essentially running on a ticket of “look, forget the questions you might have about my politics, I’m visibly the most charismatic politician in the race and if anyone in this race is going to keep your seat safe, it’s me”. The first gig my partner and I went to together was the tour for that album. But for a sizeable chunk of Conservatives, “Boris Johnson is a winner” is one of those things Everybody Knows. Johnson is drawing support from the party’s right, from MPs who want to retain their seats and think he is the best option, and from MPs who think that when all is said and done, Johnson will get 100 MPs to back him, will make the final ballot of members and will win it, so they might as well get on the Johnson train rather than be under it. She pulled over the support of rightwingers who, to put it bluntly, thought that Truss and Braverman were a bit too weird-looking to win an election, and leftwingers who thought that Sunak wasn’t really one of them. (Here is how our [live coverage of the events unfolded](https://www.ft.com/content/b115f85c-a1ff-47ab-90cc-3425ab377406)). While there is a caucus of Conservative MPs who bitterly dislike the idea of another term for Boris Johnson, there are definitely 100 MPs who are either desperate enough or committed enough to Johnson for that not to matter. The private pitch to supporters of Braverman and Badenoch from Truss’s campaign was always “look, come on, you can have your fun with these people, but be realistic: only one candidate from the right is making it to the final two, and it’s Truss”. One candidate is essentially guaranteed to clear both the 100 mark and the 120 one: Rishi Sunak. The reason why Rishi Sunak only got 88 votes in the first round of this summer’s leadership contest, and Truss only 50, is that for different reasons, the party’s left and right harboured doubts about both of them and preferred to flirt with the likes of Tom Tugendhat, Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman, Grant Shapps, Nadhim Zahawi, Jeremy Hunt, etc etc. If you’re not yet a subscriber to the FT, you can [take out our special offer for Inside Politics readers here](https://subs.ft.com/digital_intro?segmentId=01311938-9310-ac4e-30a9-1712b555f7b4). Assuming that three do, there will be a subsequent vote among MPs on Monday afternoon to winnow the field down to two.

With Liz Truss out, contenders face a Monday deadline to get the backing of at least 100 Conservative Party lawmakers.

If there is more than one, the hopefuls will be whittled down before the final two are put forward to the 170,000 members of the Conservative Party. Many at the time speculated it could be a ” the Financial Times In 2019, Johnson helped his party to a whopping great win in the general election. But her “PM4PM” supporters are seeking to change that, pointing out that she polls better with the all-important Conservative Party members than Sunak. They point out that during the last contest his candidacy received the most support from his colleagues and say that many of his economic ideas turned out to be prescient. It’s possible that, given the high bar, only one candidate will be put forward by Monday at 2 p.m., which is when the nominations close. His time in office was marked by scandal after scandal and voters and his own colleagues were upset by his refusal to accept accountability. It is not certain if anyone else could galvanize the population to the same extent — or if Johnson himself even still can. The Telegraph, the Sun and the Daily Express all put on Johnson for their front page, while the left-leaning Mirror just called for a general election “now” in enormous print. Or might someone else emerge as the leading hopeful to become the next Conservative Party leader? Or Penny Mordaunt, who is not widely known but polls well with the Conservative Party members?

Truss quit after a turbulent 45-day term, conceding that she could not deliver on her tax-cutting economic plans.

She was elected leader by the Conservatives early last month after a party election to replace Johnson. The new leader will be Britain’s third prime minister this year, and the Conservative turmoil is fueling demands for a national election. Mordaunt, who came third, is popular with the party grassroots. Lawmakers will vote to knock out one of those and will hold an indicative vote on the final two. The party’s 172,000 members will then get to decide between the two finalists in an online vote. His return would be a remarkable resurrection for a politician who is popular and polarising in equal measure.

Former PM dominates debate as contest to replace Liz Truss begins, only six weeks after he left office. Plus, the lettuce that outlasted Truss.

[crowned the winner of a bizarre competition](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/20/iceberg-lettuce-in-blonde-wig-outlasts-liz-truss) after outlasting the doomed British prime minister’s Liz Truss’s tenuous grip on power. [worst air quality in the world](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/20/seattle-portland-air-quality-wildfire-smoke) as numerous wildfires burn nearby, choking residents and casting an eerie haze across the skyline. The verdict in a federal court in Manhattan brings to a conclusion a civil trial that was an outgrowth of the #MeToo movement. Like the protagonist in Orson Welles’s masterpiece Citizen Kane, Trump was a swaggering capitalist and media star who forayed into politics, was brought down by hubris, and now rattles around a gilded cage in Florida, With all this in mind, I decided that it would be a great time to see what the alternative was like. As I’ve progressively become more of a homebody, I’ve racked up subscriptions to major content providers like Netflix and Amazon Prime and even signed up for services so that I could watch a single show. Job cuts are expected in the coming months no matter who owns the company, according to the report. The Russians just don’t have anything in their inventory.” “Tehran is now directly engaged on the ground and through the provision of weapons … “Ukraine is important, but at the same time it can’t be the only thing they do and it can’t be a blank check,” he told Punchbowl. Several Tories have come out in support of Rishi Sunak as the successor to Truss. Aid to Ukraine on the chopping block.

Ms Truss was elected by Conservative Party members, who may get the final say in this latest contest, if two contenders remain after MPs have voted. A second ...

Mr Johnson has kept a surprisingly low profiled since leaving office. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the former prime minister was "unfit for office". "I think if we're talking about unity and decisive candidates Mr Sunak and Mr Johnson epitomise one of the biggest splits in the party right now," Mr Johnson said. "If Mr Johnson goes to the final two, he's got the edge." He was described as "Britain's Berlusconi" by the Liberal Democrats who are attempting to block Mr Johnson becoming prime minister through motion in parliament. His Tory colleague Crispin Blunt has also publicly argued Mr Johnson is not the person to restore the reputation of the Conservative Party.

LONDON — As he stood in Britain's Houses of Parliament for the final time, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, signed off with a colorful: “Hasta la vista, ...

Others politicians [threatened ](https://twitter.com/kaitborsay/status/1583183940785172480)to resign from the party if Johnson returns and run as independent candidates. The country needs you, you’ve had a long enough break,” [tweeted ](https://twitter.com/marcolonghi4dn/status/1583111196542087171)Conservative lawmaker Marco Longhi. [tweeted ](https://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/1583110655745277952)British actor Stephen Fry. “He has had his chance,” former Conservative cabinet minister David Lidington [told ](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001d5mv)British radio Friday. … I actually hate living here,” [wrote another online commentator.](https://twitter.com/JamesSpinky88/status/1583369324743753728) “Are we seriously considering [#BorisJohnson](https://twitter.com/hashtag/BorisJohnson?src=hashtag_click) again? If there is more than one successful candidate, then the hopefuls will be whittled down before the final two are put forward to the wider 170,000 members of the national Conservative Party. “He’s on a plane,” he added. He was ousted under pressure from his own lawmakers, many of whom lost confidence in him. While Johnson has not yet formally thrown his hat in the ring, his backers and some right-leaning newspapers say his return would be in the “national interest” — a prospect that immediately generated intense reactions. “No no no no no NO! And there’s at least a chance that the new tenant of No.

Candidates to replace Liz Truss as UK prime minister scramble to secure 100 nominations.

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