UK’s former foreign secretary Boris Johnson remains the frontrunner in the race to become the next prime minister
Conservative Party leadership candidate Boris Johnson talks during the launch of his campaign in London, Britain June 12, 2019.
Ex-Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab got only 30 votes, three short of the threshold needed to go through to the next round. All the contenders vow they will succeed where May failed and lead Britain out of the European Union, though they differ about how to break the country's Brexit deadlock. Stewart said "there would never be no-deal" if he were prime minister because it would be too damaging to the economy.
Hunt and Gove are both considered experienced and competent ministers, but unexciting. Gove seems to have shrugged off the revelation that he used cocaine two decades ago.
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