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Former London mayor and foreign minister, Boris Johnson on Tuesday won the most votes cast in the second round of voting for Conservative Party leader #ANNnews #AfricanNewsNetwork

Former London mayor and foreign minister, Boris Johnson on Tuesday won the most votes cast in the second round of voting for Conservative Party leader, with four other candidates also getting through in the race to replace British Prime Minister Theresa May.

Johnson, won 126 votes, with Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt in second place on 46 votes and environment minister, Michael Gove third with 41…

Conservatives Have to Rally Behind the New Leader

The leadership race is now over, the new leader has been chosen. There are Conservative members out there who are not happy their candidate did not win. I’m one of them. I voted for Maxime Bernier. He lost just being edged out by Andrew Scheer. I thought Mad Max was going to win.  He didn’t.  Sure I was disappointed but only for a short time.  We have a new leader and we have to live with it. Our…

Three remain in race to be UK Conservative leader as two lowest vote-getters drop out | Fox News

Liam Fox in June. (Dominic Lipinski / PA via AP)

The race to succeed Prime Minister David Cameron as leader of the UK’s Conservative Party was reduced from five to three Tuesday after a single round of voting. 

With the British currency plunging to its lowest point in three decades as a result of last month’s vote to leave the European Union, Home Secretary Theresa May scored a substantial…