Boris Johnson drops out of race to be UK Conservative Party leader and PM

[IcyPeas]

Boris Johnson drops out of race to be UK Conservative Party leader and PM - follow live updates https://bbc.in/3gyMLHI

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/boris-johnson-pulls-out-tory-leadership-contest-times-political-editor-2022-10-23/

Former prime minister Boris Johnson pulled out of the contest to become Britain's next leader on Sunday, saying he had the support of enough lawmakers to progress to the next stage but far fewer than front-runner former finance minister Rishi Sunak.

"There is a very good chance that I would be successful in the election with Conservative Party members - and that I could indeed be back in Downing Street on Friday," Johnson said in a statement.

"But in the course of the last days I have sadly come to the conclusion that this would simply not be the right thing to do. You can't govern effectively unless you have a united party in parliament."

Johnson, who never formally announced his bid to return to Downing Street, has spent the weekend trying to persuade Conservative lawmakers to back him and said on Sunday that he had the support of 102 of them.
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[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. Borris was worried about losing to a head of lettuce

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[magicarpet]

2. Well at least,...

.... Borris did not go on a solid two year shit fit because they tossed his ass out... (unlike the Mango Fuhrer).

Maybe Borris could teach tRUMPie some political manners and decorum to get him unstuck in his contstant state of infantile paralysis where tantrum after tantrum is the order of the day.