“Them’s the breaks” shrugs a departing prime minister.
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Johnson will remain prime minister until a new party leader is chosen - which could take months.
The UK prime minister tendered his resignation after a slew of resignations by former allies in his government.
A look at the runners and riders in the Conservative leadership race.
As the Johnson government ends, here’s what lies ahead for a new UK chancellor
He hardly has any government ministers and his own cabinet tried to force him to resign. What is going on?
The prime minister’s personal popularity has plummeted but the people who decide how to replace him still can’t agree on a successor.
A heartening 70% of British voters want to allow Ukrainians into the UK but only 50% feel the same way about Afghans. And the difference is even starker among those who vote Conservative.
Byelection defeats in Tiverton and Honiton and Wakefield will have shaken some Conservative MPs.
The Liberal Democrats think they can take the seat from Boris Johnson’s Conservatives in the wake of partygate – and longstanding resentment towards the political class is fuelling their optimism.
The Conservatives have always been happy to rewrite their own rules when it suits them.
The prime minister wants to move onto other government businesses, but vote strikes and bargaining could throw a spanner in the works.
With 41 percent of his MPs united against him, Johnson is unlikely to last long – or get much done if he does.
The Tory party is a ‘broad church’ with many factions. And many of them are unimpressed with the prime minister at the moment.
With 40% of his MPs voting against his leadership, how realistic are the prime minister’s hopes for survival?
The prime minister has survived by 211 votes to 148.
Prisoners in the UK are not allowed to vote. Their fate is a useful starting point for any backbencher wondering if it’s time to write a letter of no confidence in the prime minister.
Amid growing concern over job security, pay, workload and passenger safety, rail workers in England and Scotland are voting on industrial action.
The party has long dominated but the scale of the lead raises questions about why the Conservatives are experiencing such unprecedented unpopularity.
Why will calling someone a liar get you thrown out of the UK parliamentary debates, but using defamatory language might not?
Principales colaboradores
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Paul Whiteley es Amigo de The Conversation.Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, Lancaster University
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Associate Tutor in Politics and Social Sciences, Edge Hill University
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Manchester
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Associate Professor of British Politics, University of Leeds
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Hull
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Associate Professor of Politics, Richmond American International University
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Former Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics
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Head of Politics, Sheffield Hallam University
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Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, Monash University
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Founding Director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics, University of Sheffield
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Ashbel Smith Professor, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Sussex
