Ten candidates are bidding for the leadership of the Conservative Party which will bring with it the job of Prime Minister, succeeding Theresa May. The former Foreign Secretary and Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is one of the main contenders.
Boris Johnson has said if he is elected as the leader of the Conservative Party he will defeat Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party and protect Britain from “red-toothed, red-clawed socialism.”
He said Britain was a “soft power superpower” and he said it was time for the country to “end this debilitating uncertainty” over Brexit.
On Thursday, 13 June, Mr Johnson and the nine other contenders – who include his erstwhile friend Michael Gove and Jeremy Hunt, who succeeded him as Foreign Secretary – will face the first round of voting among Conservative MPs.