Britain will have a new prime minister to replace Boris Johnson on 5 September

A new Conservative leader to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister will be announced on September 5th. The 1922 Committee, the highest conservative authority, changed the rules to speed up a transition, which worried Conservative MPs about Boris’s unpredictability and his desire to leave a different legacy, having been abandoned by his party.

The new calendar means that applications open this Monday and close tomorrow. The first vote will take place on Wednesday. The second, Thursday. Each candidate needs 20 approvals and on the first ballot, each candidate must get at least 30 votes from Conservative MPs to continue.

The number of Conservative MPs who can stand for election replacing Boris Johnson could be shortened after changes to the rules of the competition for the leadership of the party.

The new regulations mean that MPs are about to become Conservative Party leaders now they will need the support of another 20 MPs conservatives to go to the polls.

In competition

“Candidates will need at least 30 votes to advance to the next round,” said 1922 committee chairman Sir Graham Brady. That would be just under 10% of Conservative MPs, so it could narrow the field even further.

“And if there is a large number of candidates after the nominations have been submitted,” said Sir Graham there may be “election campaigns on Wednesday evening to help narrow it down the next day.

Until now, This was announced by 11 parliamentarians publicly that they want to replace the prime minister after his resignation last week.

Only former finance chancellor Rishi Sunak and former Brexitier defense secretary Penny Mordaunt have reached the 20 nomination mark. Only Sunak exceeded 30 to pass the first round of voting.

However, many of the 358 Conservative MPs they have not yet declared who they will support.

Whenever a leadership election is held, the executive of the Conservative Parliamentary Committee of 1922 determine the rules and procedures.

In 2019, an MP who wanted to run needed the support of eight other Conservative MPs to make it to the first round.

change of rules

After the 1922 executive held its elections on Monday afternoon, with the re-election of President Sir Graham, they voted on the timetable and rules of the new leadership race. A way to limit Boris Jonssonthat according to the old rules he could stay until October and not be subjected to the vote of confidence of his people for a year.

By increasing the number of deputies needed to nominate a potential candidate, the duration of the entire electoral process for finding another leader will be shortened. A way to stop Boris from drawing his legacy, cut taxes, distribute subsidies, make a more Keynesian government and eliminate the Northern Ireland protocol, which regulates Brexit and the border between Europe and Great Britain.

In 2019, there were initially 10 candidates in the first ballot. It took six rounds of voting before the last two candidates were known.

After the field reduced to two candidates, they will face the vote of party membersbased on a member’s vote and the candidate who receives the most votes wins.

Currently the preference among Conservatives is former naval reservoir Penny Mordaunt as prime minister. Keny Badenoch follows and in third place Rishi Sunak, a billionaire of Indian origin, trained at Winchester and Stanford University, whose resignation in the name of integrity was the beginning of the downfall of Boris Johnson.

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