Boris Johnson

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.

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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Following the resignation of Liz Truss as Britain's fourth prime minister in a little over six years, her Conservative party — in power since 2010 — is ...

But in her public resignation letter, she seemed to sharply criticize Truss for not engaging in "serious politics" and for failing to take responsibility for her government's mistakes, including the tax and spending proposals that had roiled financial markets in recent weeks. That left her responsible for police, the criminal justice system and immigration, and had already earned a hard-line reputation as a hawk on immigration. Sunak was Johnson's high-profile and largely popular finance minister during the pandemic, but lost out to Truss in the race to replace him. In that role he took unprecedented action to support Britain's economy during the pandemic, with months-long programs to replace workers' wages and incentivize consumer spending. To the amusement of many, in recent weeks and advocated vociferously for a controversial policy that would send asylum-seekers arriving in Britain to the African nation of Rwanda for their claims to be processed there. That is designed to avoid a repeat of the earlier, drawn-out His statements to that effect were largely vindicated when financial markets reacted He stepped down under a tidal wave of pressure when dozens of members of his own government quit. But Johnson retains supporters inside the parliamentary party and among ordinary grassroots members. as home secretary — under Truss' premiership. Some critics have said they will leave the party if he returns.

Former PM's allies say he will easily make threshold of 100 MPs, while critics warn of potential defections.

A senior former cabinet minister said the risk with Johnson was that “you never know where the next embarrassment is going to come from”. One senior backbench Tory said: “It looks to me like he’ll get the 100 nominations. Johnson will argue that only he has the ability to win an election, despite an Opinium poll suggesting Sunak would do better against Labour’s Keir Starmer. Jesse Norman, a senior Tory MP and Foreign Office minister, said returning to Johnson would be a disaster. But choosing Boris now would be – and I say this advisedly – an absolutely catastrophic decision,” he said. He said: ‘I’m flying back, Dudders, we are going to do this.

Liz Truss will go down in history as Britain's shortest serving Prime Minister. Rishi Sunak is tipped to run again, but there are reports former Prime ...