Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss to go head-to-head to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister – how their prospects compare: Conservative MPs in the UK parliament have selected former chancellor Rishi Sunak and foreign secretary Liz Truss as the final two candidates in the competition to become the next leader of their party. The winner …
Boris Johnson’s ignominious end: the difference between ‘big tent’ politics and personalised populism: Following an excruciating few days when many of his colleagues left his cabinet over yet another scandal, Boris Johnson finally resigned on July 7 as leader of the Conservative party. As the UK is a parliamentary democracy, he continues as caretaker prime …
Tory leadership election: what happens – and when – in the race to replace Boris Johnson: Boris Johnson’s resignation as Conservative leader has triggered the start of the process to find his successor. Rules setting out a two-month leadership election have now been confirmed by the 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs. The Conservatives’ leadership …
Boris Johnson resignation: how the prime minister’s tumultuous week played out: Michael Tubi / Shutterstock After weathering numerous storms that would have sunk others, Boris Johnson’s time as prime minister comes to an ignoble end, mired in scandal and having lost the support of nearly all his MPs. The resignation didn’t come out of nowhere …
Boris Johnson’s claim of a ‘mandate’ from the people isn’t accurate – here’s how prime ministers really get power: Boris Johnson’s time as Conservative party leader has come to an end, after a chaotic week marked by rebellion from his cabinet. But despite the wave of resignations and calls from his top ministers to step …
Boris Johnson breaks from his party in bitter resignation speech – what he said and what he really meant: Having apparently delayed the inevitable for as long as he could, Boris Johnson finally took to a podium outside 10 Downing Street on July 7 to say he would be stepping down as leader of the …
Boris Johnson resigns as prime minister – here’s who could replace him: Most prime ministers would have resigned over any one of the scandals to engulf Boris Johnson’s government. Johnson, never one for tradition or rules, rode out nearly every crisis – but the Chris Pincher affair was the final straw. Led by Health Secretary …
The fall of Boris Johnson: any democracy should look to his case and ask if it is enabling machiavellian leaders: Boris Johnson’s resignation as prime minister is not just a portentous political event. His time in office – and the nature of his departure – throw up vital questions about democratic values and institutions. Blaming …
Boris Johnson: a terminal case of hubris syndrome: As Boris Johnson barricades himself in Number 10, apparently unwilling or unable to listen to the advice of close party colleagues who are calling on him to resign, how can we understand this bizarre melodrama? As I watched Johnson’s appearance in front of the House of Commons …
Boris Johnson’s nightmare day: how to read between the lines in resignation letters from government ministers: Over the course of an extraordinary 24 hours, dozens of Conservative MPs have written to Boris Johnson to announce their resignation from his government following multiple scandals. Many of these letters were published on social media for all to …
Boris Johnson: four key insights from recent polls can help us see where the crisis is heading: Flickr/Number 10, CC BY-NC-SA Boris Johnson has been called a Heineken politician – he can reach parts of the public other politicians cannot. Yet scandal after scandal amid worsening economic conditions and a swathe of strikes has left …
Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton byelections: even Boris Johnson loyalists will now be worried for the next election: Is Johnson in danger? Alexandros Michailidis / Shutterstock The scale of byelection defeats in Tiverton and Honiton in south-west England and Wakefield in the north of England might have Conservative rebels wishing they had waited a few …
Keir Starmer: what Labour leader could learn from Neil Kinnock to capitalise on Boris Johnson’s woes: Although prime minister Boris Johnson is suffering a potentially career-ending crisis after only narrowly surviving a confidence vote in his leadership, his struggles don’t necessarily appear to be translating into a surge for the Labour opposition. A recent poll …
After years of breaking the rules, Boris Johnson must now hope his MPs won’t change the only one keeping him in office: Britain has no single document which outlines what its democracy looks like. The British constitution is made up of huge amounts of legislation, all of which can be rewritten if needed, and rules …
The tactics Tory rebels could use to derail Boris Johnson: Boris Johnson is keen to move on from the confidence vote that, while showing a victory on paper for him, reveals an extremely divided Conservative Party. Choppy waters lie ahead for the prime minister and his government, whose ambitious legislative agenda is now threatened by …
Boris Johnson never took full control of the Tory party – uniting it now seems impossible: Boris Johnson is a weakened prime minister after the recent confidence vote by his party’s MPs. The view among many political analysts and academics is that the 211-148 vote in his favour is too damaging, and he is unlikely …
Conservative Party: who are the rebels and why do they want Boris Johnson gone?: nui7711 via Shutterstock Boris Johnson rose to power as the Conservative Party’s “Heineken” leader: deemed able to reach parts of the electorate that other Conservatives couldn’t. But fewer than three years after winning a stunning election victory, he now has the …
I correctly predicted the vote on Boris Johnson’s leadership – here’s how I did it: It would be nice to claim that the near complete accuracy of my prediction of the result of the Conservative Party’s vote of no confidence in Boris Johnson was a glorious triumph of dedicated political science: I predicted that 211 …