Former British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson faces his current successor, Jeremy Hunt, in the final race for the ruling Conservative Party and prime minister as successor to Teresa May.

In the final round of voting on Thursday afternoon, Johnson (former mayor of London) boosted his lead by 160 votes out of 313, followed by Hunt 77. While third candidate Environment Minister Michael Goff received 75 votes. One ballot was canceled.

"It is a great honor to have more than 50 percent of the vote," Johnson wrote on Twitter.

He has already won a big lead in the last two rounds of an election that will determine the final candidate for the next Conservative Party leader who will take over the 10 Downing Street keys as well as the thorny Brickst issue.

In the final round, 160,000 members of the Conservative Party will vote for the candidates, and the winner will be announced in late July.

"Look at the responsibility for Kahli: to demonstrate to my party how we can implement Britain's exit from the European Union without holding elections," Hunt wrote in a tweet.

Hunt, who is more moderate than his rival, plans to renegotiate the EU exit deal reached in November last year with Brussels to postpone the BRICEST scheduled for Oct. 31, if European leaders agree, but is also ready to leave. Union without agreement if these leaders refuse to renegotiate.

Mae resigns as Conservative chief (Getty Images)

Choose .. Suspense
In the coming weeks, the two finalists will travel across the country to show their plans for about 160,000 Conservative voters, and they will have to choose between them by late next month, but the level of suspense seems dim.

"For the majority of fellow conservatives, it is now almost inevitable that Johnson will be the next prime minister," The Guardian wrote.

The implementation of BRICAST will be the priority of the new prime minister, three years after the June 2016 referendum, which saw Britain vote 52 percent for the historic split.

On May 7, Mai resigned as head of the Conservative Party after failing to apply for exit from the European Union and was repeatedly criticized and divided within the party.

After the parliament rejected three times the withdrawal agreement, which May negotiated with the European Commission, which is supposed to organize a smooth separation, forced the prime minister to postpone the date of BRICAST to October 31 next.