Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson are final two in Tory leadership race

[brooklynite]

Source: The Guardian

Jeremy Hunt will go head to head with Boris Johnson in the race to be Britain’s next prime minister, after beating Michael Gove by just two votes in the fifth and final round of voting by Conservative MPs.

Johnson won 160 votes against 77 for Hunt and 75 for Gove. Johnson and Hunt’s names will now go forward to the Tory membership of around 140,000 – with Johnson the overwhelming favourite to take possession of the keys to 10 Downing Street next month.

They will first have to face more than a dozen hustings events for party members, at which the pair’s plans for Brexit will come under scrutiny.

Johnson has repeatedly promised that he will take Britain out of the European Union before the latest deadline of 31 October, with or without a deal.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/20/jeremy-hunt-and-boris-johnson-are-final-two-in-tory-leadership-race

[nycbos]

1. I am very dismayed about what is going in the UK.

The difference is I feel like I have a home in the Democratic Party. If I was a citizen of the UK I would no longer have a home. The Tories are horrible but I couldn't support a Labour Part lead by Corbyn.

[brooklynite]

2. Lib Dem? Change UK? (prospectively a merger of the two)

[LittleGirl]

4. My spouse is a Brit

Dual US citizen and he’s just resigned that the UK is Fu*ked now. I asked him what should we do? He said there’s nothing we can do.
Both the US AND Uk are a mess.

[Polybius]

3. Which one is the lesser of two evils?

I don't know much about Jeremy Hunt.