Many Tories want to keep Boris Johnson

Peter Holmes takes a sip from his beer glass. “Boris Johnson should still be prime minister,” he says loudly, heard amid the hubbub of voices and music at the Black Swan pub near the train station in the northeastern English town of Darlington. Of the two possible successors Former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak And Secretary of State Liz Truss A member of the Conservative Party thinks little. Neither has the charisma of Johnson. And: “A woman shouldn’t be prime minister anyway,” insists the 76-year-old. Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher? An exception.

Like Holmes, many in Britain are now critical of both Truss and Sunak. A poll by Sunday newspaper The Observer found that more than 60 percent of party members who have been able to vote for a new prime minister online and by mail since early August would vote for Johnson to remain as prime minister. At the beginning of September, there will be a change at the top of the country, and some will obviously not like it – and it will not only apply to members of the party. What are the causes of Johnson’s nostalgia, the mood of crisis in the country, and what does this mean for the Labor Party?