They are only four. British Conservative MP Boris Johnson topped the third round of voting on Wednesday (June 19th) in the conservative caucus to replace Theresa May. With 143 votes, the former mayor of London far outstripped his competitors still in the running: Jeremy Hunt (54 votes), Michael Gove (51 votes) and Sajid Javid (38 votes).
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Arriving at the bottom of the list with 27 votes, Rory Stewart is eliminated.
Decisive Thursday
Thursday will be decisive, with the last rounds of voting by Conservative MPs to select the two finalist contenders for the post of leader of the Tory party, to whom will return the keys of 10 Downing Street, where are installed the British Prime Ministers, but also the thorny file of Brexit.
It will then be up to the 160,000 members of the Conservative Party to decide between now and the end of July.
The future head of the executive will then feel on his shoulders the full weight of the challenge that was right Theresa May: implement the exit of the EU, originally scheduled for March 29 and postponed to October 31, in a country still deeply divided on the issue three years after the referendum of June 23, 2016.
With Reuters