Boris Johnson

The race to choose Britain’s next Prime Minister has revealed a surprising fact about the country’s ruling Conservative Party: its willingness to back a potential leader from a racial minority background, even as some 97% of the party’s membership—who will ultimately decide the next leader—is white. It’s a far cry…

Former British finance minister Rishi Sunak won the fourth round of voting in the contest to replace Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday. Lawmaker Kemi Badenoch was eliminated from the contest. The full results are below: Candidate Fourth round votes Rishi Sunak 118 Penny Mordaunt 92 Liz Truss 86 Kemi…

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s successor will have to sign off on a new net-zero strategy after the UK government's plan was ruled unlawful Environment | Analysis 19 July 2022 By Adam Vaughan Transportation is just one of many sectors covered by the UK’s Net Zero Strategy Canetti/Getty Images A day…

Conservative Party MPs will vote for a fourth time on Tuesday in the contest to elect Johnson’s successor as party leader and UK prime minister, after the latest ballot left Rishi Sunak looking almost certain to make the top two. He secured 115 votes – up 14 on last week…

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LONDON —  For the first time in history, Britons could soon have a person of color as their prime minister. Even more, that person could also be a woman. What it’s least likely to be: a white male. A historically diverse slate of candidates is vying to succeed Prime Minister Boris…

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Five MPs vying to replace Boris Johnson as Tory leader and Prime Minister engaged in a lacklustre but sometimes testy debate that ignored immigration, law and order, and free speech issues on Sunday. Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, former communities minister Kemi Badenoch, former…

Published July 17, 2022 11:33pm LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government stood accused Sunday of failing to take seriously an impending heat emergency as forecasters warned that lives were at risk. Johnson missed a crisis ministerial meeting in Downing Street Saturday while he took a weekend break at…