Poll Whom do you think will replace Johnson?

[TommyR01D]

Yes, it's that time again. Two days ago Boris Johnson was feeling the pinch (ahem) and today the government has fallen. An election for the next leader of the ruling Conservative & Unionist Party, and thus the next prime minister, is about to commence.

It is not yet set in stone which MPs are actually standing, so the poll options may be subject to revision.

 

[scotpens]

Since I'm a Yank and unfamiliar with U.K. politics, I have no opinion. However, I do thank you for using "whom" correctly.

 

[Markonian]

1. The Tory-voting public will not accept a non-white PM in this day and age.
2. I reckon the following three candidates:
Prime Minister Jacob Rees-Mogg
Prime Minister Nadine Dorries
Prime Minister Arlene Foster - in a desperate bid for an alliance with the DUP?

 

[TommyR01D]

1. The Tory-voting public will not accept a non-white PM in this day and age.

I'd say it's underappreciated how much Johnson did for ethnic diversity. His cabinet was the least white in British history, with white people actually underrepresented compared to the population at large. Throughout multiple reshuffles he consistently had BAME MPs in senior government positions to an extent no previous government - Labour or Conservative - had achieved. This is despite his being a hard Eurosceptic, anti-BLM government which garnered support from right-wing populists, totally the opposite of what you'd expect.