Boris Johnson has arrived back in the U.K. as the Conservative Party gears up to select Britain’s next leader, following the dramatic implosion of Liz Truss’s premiership.
Boris Johnson preparing to deliver his resignation speech outside 10 Downing Street in central London on September 6, 2022. In an extraordinary about turn Mr.Johnson could be able to seek a second term in office, after the premiership of his successor imploded.© ISABEL INFANTES/AFP/GETTY
The former prime minister returned from holiday in the Caribbean on Saturday, with 6,800 people following his British Airways flight across the Atlantic on tracking site flighttrack24 at 4.10am ET.
Johnson is widely expected to run again for the Tory Party leadership, which could potentially restore him to 10 Downing Street less than two months after he was forced to leave.
However, his divisive candidacy risks splitting his party, with one former Conservative Minister telling Newsweek that “nothing’s changed” since July when Johnson was forced to quit by his own ministers who were “fed up with.
Boris Johnson has arrived back in the U.K. as the Conservative Party gears up to select Britain’s next leader, following the dramatic implosion of Liz Truss’s premiership.
Boris Johnson preparing to deliver his resignation speech outside 10 Downing Street in central London on September 6, 2022. In an extraordinary about turn Mr Johnson could be able to seek a second term in office, after the premiership of his successor imploded.© ISABEL INFANTES/AFP/GETTY
The former prime minister returned from holiday in the Caribbean on Saturday, with 6,800 people following his British Airways flight across the Atlantic on tracking site flighttrack24 at 4.10am ET.
Johnson is widely expected to run again for the Tory Party leadership, which could potentially restore him to 10 Downing Street less than two months after he was forced to leave.
However, his divisive candidacy risks splitting his party, with one former Conservative Minister telling Newsweek that “nothing’s changed” since July when Johnson was forced to quit by his own ministers who were “fed up with his lies and dissembling.”
Penny Mordaunt, a former Defense Secretary, has announced her intention to run while Rishi Sunak, the former Chancellor who Truss beat to become PM in September, has passed the 100 Tory MP threshold to run, according to his allies.
To enter the race potential candidates must show they have the backing of 100 Conservative MPs, out of a total of 357.
MPs will vote on any candidates who reach this threshold until just two are left, with party members making the final decision next week.
The high threshold has been deliberately chosen to speed up the election after the party spent two months selecting Truss over the summer.