Boris Johnson to be UK’s new prime minister
Boris Johnson will be the next prime minister of the UK after he won the contest to be the leader of the Conservative Party. Around 160,000 Conservative Party members could vote for who they wanted to win in the race to replace Theresa May. Theres...
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Boris Johnson will be the next prime minister of the UK after he won the contest to be the leader of the Conservative Party.
Around 160,000 Conservative Party members could vote for who they wanted to win in the race to replace Theresa May.
Theresa May announced she was standing down as Conservative Party leader on 7 June after failing to get Parliament to agree on a way that Brexit should be carried out.
She said would on as prime minister until a new leader was chosen by party members, who would then take over.
Several Conservative MPs put their name forward for the job – but the two candidates in the final race to the finish were Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt.
Not everyone who could vote did. Some of the votes were not counted because they were spoilt. Of those eligible votes, Boris Johnson won 92,153. Jeremy Hunt collected 46,656 votes.
That means that Boris Johnson got very nearly twice as many votes as Jeremy Hunt.
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