FT: UK Conservative Party will elect Johnson’s successor in September
The British Conservative Party of the retired leader Boris Johnson plans to elect a new British prime minister in early September, the Financial Times reports. The British newspaper bases the report on conversations with MPs who are aware of the plans.
Johnson, who resigned as party leader on Thursday, remains prime minister in the British system, where there are no automatic new elections if the government falls. The party’s new leader will be the new prime minister. Johnson has explicitly emphasized after his resignation that he will leave key budget decisions to his successor.