Live coverage of the UK Tory leadership contest at Sky News: The latest as the contest to succeed Theresa May steps up a gear, with at least one candidate set to be eliminated from the race.
Updates to follow (when I have time).
…Boris Johnson comfortably wins second ballot in Tory leadership contest with 126 votes
Further ballots will be held later this week.
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I vote for Nigel Farage!!
Brexit Party all the way, baby.
At least one Brexiteer, Boris Johnson, will be on the final ballot. Mind you, he has gotten a bit wishy-washy. I recommend proroguing Parliament until after the October split. Then call Parliament and patch up what needs to be patched up.
Sorry Boris but the Toronto Star says you can’t be prime minister.
Britain is finished.
Boris will make a great captain of HMS Titanic, maybe even do a few Gilbert ans Sullivan numbers before the Conservative Party sinks into obscurity.
It sounds like Rory Stewart would not serve in a Boris Johnson government. There must be a lot of personal animosity between those two.
The Conservatives must end up with a clear Brexit leader.
Boris the numpty/muppet/idiot Johnson is NOT a BREXITeer any more than Sharia May was/is.
History its all in the history.
The Tories are toast
Nigel Farage can’t be voted for he’s not in the (con)serve-a-tive party.
Funny but I do believe they(thats the MP’s in the (c)onservative party) are voting for a new leader, traditionally BUT not by right, they become PM. Don’t bet on Sharia May moving on from PM there is ample precedence for her to stay, listen to what she said, she was resigning as “Leader” of the Party.
The problem with Bojo is that he is a best buddy of Cameron the lefty nitwit who was “conservative” PM of Britain for a while. They went to school and drank together. I am very suspicious of him. He says all the right things, as did Traitoryous May; but her plan was to derail brexit (for which I expect she will be amply rewarded, like Tony Blair).
Can the British people trust any “conservative” or the “conservative” party any more? I think they are done; cooked; toast.
Await a further betrayal by these people before the game is won.
Unf*ing believable…they’re going to do the whole creme-of-wheat circus that gave us Scheer.
‘Death by a thousand ballots.’
T.H.R.E.E. ballots you ijjits; First ballot eliminates all but the top three. Second ballot eliminates one more, and the last ballot picks a winner, unless one of the first two ballots delivered a candidate with a simple majority.
This is painful to watch.