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While Liz Truss has just resigned from her position as Prime Minister, her predecessor, Boris Johnson, is trying to get the sponsorship needed to try to fill the position. If he is not a candidate yet, Pogo appears to be among the best in the Conservative Party’s internal elections, which should appoint a new prime minister within a week, at the latest.
Some support him, others are willing to resign if he returns to Downing Street. In a new development, Boris Johnson on Friday, October 21, will seek the necessary sponsorship to try to return to the British prime ministership.
On vacation in the Caribbean, he has not yet run, nor has Rishi Sunak, the former economy minister with whom he was at odds. But the two men appear to be the best in this quick election, within the Conservative Party, which must deliver a new prime minister within one week at the most, after the resignation of Liz Truss, the leader that lasted 44 days.
As the country yearns for stability after months of a terrible political streak with discord, betrayal and incompetence, Boris Johnson, 58, the controversial ‘former champion’ of Brexit who quit three and a half months ago without a permit after a series of scandals, will prepare for her comeback.
“Boris Johnson tells Conservatives: I can save the party from political annihilation,” reports the conservative Daily Telegraph. “Boris vs. Rishi,” Fighting for the Soul of “Conservatives,” wrote the Daily Mail, a newspaper leaning more toward Johnson.
An unofficial count published by Guido at noon showed 58 deputies for Rishi Sunak, 54 for Boris Johnson and 20 for Penny Mordaunt, Minister for Relations with Parliament. 100 sponsors are needed before 2:00 p.m. Monday to be able to introduce themselves, out of 357 Conservative MPs.
Complicated weekend
The negotiations behind the scenes are going well. Apparently, Boris Johnson is preparing for his return to London and has promised a bloody weekend. Because Boris Johnson is deeply divisive.
To his supporters, he is the only legitimate one, having provided a historic majority for the Conservatives in the 2019 legislative elections. A great president, he has also maintained an aura with thousands of party members, who may have to vote next week.
“Boris or bankruptcy,” Energy Minister Jacob Rees-Mogg said on Friday. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace, who is very popular, has also said he is “leaning” on Boris, in this increasingly Shakespearean drama.
But many Tory MPs remember the Downing Street parties during the bull races against Covid, their repeated lies and lack of discipline, which undermined citizens’ confidence and caused dozens of resignations in government and their own, on July 7.
“He is currently under investigation by a parliamentary committee… and it is 100% certain that the concessions committee would agree that he misled Parliament,” Conservative MP Richard Graham told Radio Times. Another MP commented that this return would send his party “straight into the chaos we were in when he was in power.”
“Boris Johnson is Briton Berlusconi”
According to the newspaper, “The Times”, “Winning the support of the deputies is far from being a reality, but if he succeeds in doing so, he will certainly be prime minister.”
The party’s row and file remained largely loyal to Boris Johnson. According to a YouGov poll, 42% of party members think it would be a “very good” alternative to Liz Truss, and 21% a “fairly good” alternative. Rishi Sunak, who lost to Liz Truss in the summer and is sometimes seen as the traitor who fired Boris Johnson, had his score between 29% and 31% and Benny Mordaunt between 20% and 34%.
Against the background of the economic and social crisis, the workers’ opposition, which is leading in opinion polls, demands early general elections. The centrist Liberal Democrats (“Liberal Democrats”) want to block Boris Johnson’s nomination, stating that he had been convicted of breaking the law during the party’s tenure.
“Boris Johnson is Berlusconi in the UK,” said Daisy Cooper, deputy chair of the Liberal Democratic Party.
“Bye,” Boris Johnson ended his last question in Parliament last July. “The task is largely accomplished for the time being,” he added.
Perhaps he dreamed of following in the footsteps of his hero, Winston Churchill, who returned to power in 1939. But Churchill waited ten years, not six weeks.
with AFP
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