The next British Prime Minister

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Ruined by Brexit, Theresa May has resigned in tears… as the next PM just might end up doing, too: Brexit failure forces Theresa May to announce resignation | CNN

Here’s CNN on possible successors: Boris Johnson is frontrunner for PM but he'll face the same Brexit nightmare | CNN

Who do you think it will be? Who do you think it SHOULD be?

[Thing_Fish]

I understand Tulsi Gabbard will announce her candidacy shortly.

[Steophan]

Of the top Tories, my pick would be Javid as the least crap. It will probably be Boris, though, for basically the same reason Brown got the job a few years ago - it’s “his turn”.

[Quartz]

Guido has the front-runners here.

Raab is a political hack who hasn’t really done anything of note. He’s said a lot of things but has actually done little.

I don’t need to elaborate on Johnson. I will note that he was up here recently and he bombed his speech.

Hunt does have some real-world experience and has done well there. He got caught big time in the expenses scandal and there are other question marks about his integrity.

Javid is probably the best of the major candidates. He did well in the private sector. He hasn’t really put a foot wrong politically - granted he’s been over-ruled a couple of times (e.g. BDS) but politically his actions went down well with the target audiences. The problem is that he is a Remainer.

McVey is a hack who has made significant blunders, including the cardinal sin of misleading parliament.

[MichaelEmouse]

Will be: Boris.

Should be: Mogg or Farage but the little shits have the wiles to realize that it’s much safer to their reputation to cause a trainwreck than to have the buck stop with them when trying to manage it.

[One_And_Only_Wanderers]

@MichaelEmouse

Will be: Boris.

Should be: Mogg or Farage but the little shits have the wiles to realize that it’s much safer to their reputation to cause a trainwreck than to have the buck stop with them when trying to manage it.

Can’t possibly be Farage can it? Boris and Mogg are at the top of my “Please God No” list

[ShadowFacts]

@Quartz

Javid is probably the best of the major candidates. He did well in the private sector. He hasn’t really put a foot wrong politically - granted he’s been over-ruled a couple of times (e.g. BDS) but politically his actions went down well with the target audiences. The problem is that he is a Remainer.

According to your link, he was a not-very-committed Remainer, but now is firmly in the Leave camp.

@Wikipedia

Javid was an advocate for an EU referendum[16] and pro-Brexit Tories had long assumed Javid would join the Leave campaign, but in the end he backed Remain. He was never seen as very committed to that cause and has since come out as a firm Leaver.[147] Whilst Javid insists this was not as a result of pressure from either David Cameron or George Osborne, the FT revealed Osborne “got the thumbscrews out” because it would have been completely unacceptable for a Conservative Business Secretary to have advocated Brexit.[48]

Javid has maintained his position that politicians should respect the result of the referendum, and when judges ruled that the PM could not trigger the formal Brexit process without Parliament’s backing, Javid accused British High Court judges of attempting to thwart the will of the British people.[148]

Javid has made it clear since the referendum that he is sceptical of softer Brexit options such as remaining in the customs union, saying the free trade area was an “intrinsic” part of the European Union and that voters had given “clear instructions” when they voted to Leave.[147] Javid’s comments drew criticism from CBI.[149]

Javid is known to have historically held Eurosceptic views; as a student in 1990 he was thrown out of the Conservative party conference for handing out leaflets opposing Britain joining the Exchange Rate Mechanism, a forerunner of the single currency.[11]

[Quartz]

@ShadowFacts

According to your link, he was a not-very-committed Remainer, but now is firmly in the Leave camp.

So was May.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

And we can all see how well that worked out for her!

[ShadowFacts]

@Quartz

So was May.

Yes, and…? I’m not sure what you’re getting at by calling him a Remainer. That he won’t pursue Brexit and will seek some way out of it?

[Chefguy]

It will likely be Trump’s equally evil twin, Boris. This is what happens when people are disappointed; they swing wildly the other direction.

[AlsoNamedBort]

Ignorant yank here, this will just be a new election by the party correct?

[Baron_Greenback]

@AlsoNamedBort

Ignorant yank here, this will just be a new election by the party correct?

Yeah. The MPs whittle down the candidates to two, and then the wider party membership vote. The membership vote might not happen if there’s one overwhelmingly favourite candidate - that’s how May got the job.

[Quartz]

The BBC have a list of possible candidates here.

[Unreconstructed_Man]

I confidently predict that it’ll be someone who is (a) woefully inadequate for the job and (b) stupid enough to think they want it.

Boris, in other words.

[Quartz]

@Unreconstructed_Man

Boris, in other words.

I won’t argue against you, but IMHO Boris would be better as Foreign Secretary. As in ‘keep him abroad as much as possible’.

[Malden_Capell]

Who cares any more? The country’s finished. May as well start the fire sale.

[Rick_Kitchen]

@MichaelEmouse

Will be: Boris.

Should be: Mogg or Farage but the little shits have the wiles to realize that it’s much safer to their reputation to cause a trainwreck than to have the buck stop with them when trying to manage it.

Farage isn’t Tory.

[asahi]

Britain is fucked.

Sorry.

[UltraVires]

Three questions from a Yank:

1. What is so bad about Boris Johnson?

2. How could Nigel Farage be in the mix? Don’t you have to be an MP first?

3. Why does the BBC list Andrea Leadsom as a possible candidate? Didn’t she resign from the party a few days ago? How does that work? Can she rejoin now?