{"id":1706823,"date":"2022-10-22T06:30:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T10:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1706823"},"modified":"2022-10-22T09:19:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T13:19:31","slug":"momentum-builds-behind-boris-johnson-as-race-for-next-uk-pm-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/momentum-builds-behind-boris-johnson-as-race-for-next-uk-pm-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Momentum Builds Behind Boris Johnson as Race for Next UK PM Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmomentum-builds-behind-boris-johnson-as-race-for-next-uk-pm-begins%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1706823&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/GettyImages-1242321373-e1666382228284-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Five members of Cabinet have suggested they will back Boris Johnson to return as Tory leader and Prime Minister, hinting he may just be able to muster enough support to make the membership ballot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Johnson, who was finally ousted as Prime Minister not even two months ago, would romp home in a ballot of ordinary Conservative Party members as he did in 2019, if polls are accurate \u2014 but the party\u2019s parliamentary elite have set it up so that would-be candidates cannot even stand without the endorsement of 100 Members of Parliament (MPs).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>While a Johnson comeback appeared fanciful in the immediate aftermath of Liz Truss\u2019s ouster, his endorsement by a second Cabinet minister \u2014 the first was Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Secretary of State for\u00a0Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy \u2014 in the form of Simon Clarke, the so-called Secretary of State for Levelling Up, suggested he would indeed be able to at least make a fight of it.<\/p>\n<p>To those two Johnson can now add <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlokSharma_RDG\/status\/1583492425703563264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1583492425703563264%7Ctwgr%5Eecd9537e52f8ee28dc02ceb70a0a22c7926b63bb%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Frdg.today%2Freading-west-mp-alok-sharma-backs-boris-johnson-as-britains-next-prime-minister%2F\">Alok Sharma<\/a>, who holds Cabinet status as President of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/annietrev\/status\/1135533223071617024\">Anne-Marie Trevelyan<\/a>, the Secretary of State for Transport, and possibly even Ben Wallace, the respected Secretary of State for Defence \u2014 who has at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/oct\/21\/ben-wallace-rules-himself-out-for-pm-and-suggests-he-would-back-johnson\">tentatively<\/a> suggested that Johnson\u2019s leadership during the Tories\u2019 2019 election win gave him \u201ca mandate [from the public] and I think that\u2019s an important thing for all of us to bear in mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"a8d-pre twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am backing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BorisJohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BorisJohnson<\/a> \u2013 he won a mandate from the electorate in 2019<\/p>\n<p>We need to get back to delivering on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Conservatives?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@conservatives<\/a> manifesto we were elected on<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alok Sharma (@AlokSharma_RDG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlokSharma_RDG\/status\/1583492425703563264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cBoris is the person we need to lead our country and our party,\u201d explained the aforementioned Clarke in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/politics\/2022\/10\/21\/liz-truss-ally-simon-clarke-backs-boris-johnson\/\">joint statement<\/a> with\u00a0Ben Houchen, the Mayor of Tees Valley \u2014 who previously backed Rishi Sunak for the leadership \u2014 provided to <em>The Telegraph<\/em>, which is close to the Conservative Party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe won the greatest election victory for years on a mandate to unite and level up the UK, and inspired millions of people who had never voted Conservative before to get behind a generous, optimistic vision of what Britain can be,\u201d the pair continued \u2014 not entirely untruthfully, although the so-called \u2018Red Wall\u2019 of former Labour strongholds that fell to the Johnson-led Tories in 2019 were perhaps most strongly motivated by his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/02\/01\/exclusive-boris-saying-he-got-brexit-done-is-a-joke-to-northern-irish-dup-mp\/\">half-fulfiled<\/a> promise to \u201cget Brexit done\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople on Teesside love Boris because he recognised that while talent is evenly distributed across the country, opportunity is not. Boris gave us that opportunity,\u201d they claimed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople who have felt left behind from [sic] Governments of both colours want their Prime Minister to make a success of Brexit, control illegal immigration and invest in our communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">\u201cThat\u2019s what Boris would do and it\u2019s why he is so popular right across the Red Wall seats that will decide the next election,\u201d they concluded \u2014 although attempts to control illegal immigration were actually very thin on the ground during his tenure, with the boat migrants crisis inherited from Theresa May<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/08\/26\/uk-cost-of-asylum-seeker-system-tops-2-billion-per-year\/\"> growing exponentially worse<\/a> on his watch.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If the men in grey suits try to keep Boris off the ballot paper there will be a reckoning. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DYtAb99Qki\">https:\/\/t.co\/DYtAb99Qki<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Guido Fawkes (@GuidoFawkes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GuidoFawkes\/status\/1583183383144038402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Even if Johnson earns the 100 MP endorsements necessary to move forward in the contest, he will face an uphill struggle to reclaim the Tory crown.<\/p>\n<p>Most MPs, as in the leadership contest won by Liz Truss mere weeks ago, likely want Rishi Sunak, who played Brutus to Johnson\u2019s Caesar during his downfall, and the party establishment may well coordinate to prevent the former premier from reaching the final two where ordinary members would have the opportunity to vote for him \u2014 risky though that may be for them, in terms of potentially infuriating party activists.<\/p>\n<p>It seems likely Johnson\u2019s foes will seek to emphasise the dark cloud that still hangs over him in the form of an ongoing inquiry by the Committee of Privileges of the House of Commons into whether he misled Parliament as premier \u2014 which is perhaps unlikely to be impartial, given it is led by Harriet Harman, a former acting leader of the Labour Party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Johnson, for his part, appears set to try and win over the party establishment by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/10\/21\/ill-be-your-puppet-boris-begs-rishi-get-back-together-shock-return\/\">appealing to Rishi Sunak for a shock rapprochement<\/a>, with \u201callies\u201d of the former premier saying he wants the pair to put aside their differences and \u201cget back together\u201d to unite the party and defeat Labour in the next general election.<br \/>It seems highly likely that the price will be adopting the same high-tax, managed decline agenda favoured by Sunak and his supporters and imposed on Liz Truss by Sunak\u2019s proxy, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/10\/14\/anti-brexit-china-linked-covid-authoritarian-jeremy-hunt-becomes-uk-chancellor\/\">anti-Brexit lockdown authoritarian Jeremy Hunt<\/a>, in the dying days of her brief premiership.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>But this prospect may not trouble Johnson, who governed as a green agenda, pro-immigration social liberal rather than a conservative anyway, and seems more interested in occupying high office for the status and sheer sport of it than in trying to implement any particular set of policies.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019ll Be Your Puppet: Boris Begs Rishi to \u2018Get Back Together\u2019 for Shock Return <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ICvr3xTEfW\">https:\/\/t.co\/ICvr3xTEfW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1583547113173966848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Jack Montgomery on Twitter:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>@JackBM<\/span><\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>ontgomery<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five members of Cabinet have suggested they will back Boris Johnson to return as Tory leader and Prime Minister, hinting he may just be able to muster enough support 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