Theresa May Wins First Round of U.K. Conservative Leadership Contest
Source: Bloomberg
Home Secretary Theresa May won a convincing victory in the first round of the U.K. Conservative Party leadership election.
May won with 165 of 329 of votes cast by Conservative lawmakers. Andrea Leadsom came second with 66 votes, while Liam Fox finished last and was eliminated, Bloomberg News reports.
May, Leadsom, Justice Secretary Michael Gove (48 votes) and Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb (34 votes) will contest another round of voting on Thursday as they bid to succeed David Cameron as party leader and prime minister.
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ananda
(28,925 posts)ugghh
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)OnDoutside
(19,988 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)As are all the Centrist Blairites in the Labour Party trying to unseat Corbyn.
OnDoutside
(19,988 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)and nobody wants to be around to deal with the aftermath...
muriel_volestrangler
(101,424 posts)The work and pensions secretary, who secured 34 votes, said the leadership contest should proceed as planned unless others voluntarily backed out, but he said it was important that the race was as short as possible. I think, given the seriousness of the situation, the quicker we have a new and strong prime minister in place, the better, he said.
Fox, the former defence secretary, who was automatically knocked out of the contest after coming fifth, said he did not regret standing and would now stress the need for experience, as he threw himself behind May despite the fact that they were on opposite sides of the EU referendum debate.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/05/theresa-may-conservative-leadership-contest-andrea-leadsom-michael-gove-first-round-vote
So if the MPs who did vote for those 2 largely agree with them, it's very hard for Gove to get enough votes to overtake Leadsom for 2nd place, which is what he needs to get in teh vote by the party members.
goldent
(1,582 posts)Interestingly enough, both Conservatives.