Meet all the candidates in the running to be the UK’s next prime minister
By Quartz Staff May 31, 2019
Onward and upward.
Theresa May’s resignation as leader of the UK’s Conservative Party kicked a contest into high gear that, behind closed doors, was already going on for months. As the prime minister struggled to get her party and Parliament to agree on an orderly way to leave the EU, cabinet ministers fled .. https://qz.com/1464991/brexiteers-dont-want-to-deal-with-the-consequences-of-brexit/ .. and began planning for a post-May future.
A dozen people have declared their candidacy so far, a list Conservative MPs will start whittling down when May steps down on June 7. They will eventually settle on two people, who will be put to the party’s approximately 130,000 members in a vote. That means that the UK’s next prime minister, whose job it will be to steer the country out of the EU, will be decided by 0.2% of the country’s population.
The main point of differentiation between the candidates is how strongly they feel about leaving the EU with a deal on transitional arrangements, which May found impossible to get approved in Parliament. Simply quitting the bloc on the deadline of Oct. 31 without any sort of agreement—a so-called “no-deal Brexit”—proved popular .. https://qz.com/1629011/nigel-farage-seeks-to-establish-a-viable-far-right-uk-party/ .. for the upstart rightwing Brexit Party in the recent European Parliament election, so several Conservative candidates are openly entertaining the prospect.
Here are the Conservative MPs vying for that task so far, including whether they backed leaving the EU (?????) or remaining (??) in the 2016 referendum.
European Election 2019: Results in maps and charts
27 May 2019
The two biggest voting blocs have lost their majority in the European Parliament.
The centre-right European People's Party (EPP) and the centre-left Socialists and Democrats (S&D) are set to remain the two largest blocs, but have lost seats to the centre, left and nationalist right.
The Greens and Liberals have made gains, as well as the right-wing nationalist and populist groups.
Post Mortem: What the European elections tell us about a second referendum
Mapping the data: Making conclusions about a second referendum with European election results presents severe difficulties
Thursday, 30 May 2019 8:37 AM
By Lewis Baston
Forcing the results of the European election into a second referendum straitjacket is an uncertain and rather disreputable business.
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All the results really tell us is that the Remain movement has momentum and probably a narrow lead in public opinion but still faces a ferocious, evenly-matched battle against unscrupulous opponents with a large radicalised element of the electorate on their side. But then, we knew that already.
Lewis Baston is a writer on politics, elections and history. You can follow him on Twitter here.
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