UK’s Johnson wins backing from Gove for prime ministerial bid

Cameron and Johnson both attended Oxford University, where they were members of the infamous Bullingdon Club – an exclusive band of wealthy students who held grand banquets and vandalized restaurants.

Johnson’s role in the “leave” campaign, however, may hurt his chances if, as prime minister, he faces the wider electorate, rather than just the Conservative party.

In part, that’s because he didn’t have to.

Should members choose one person, he/she wins and becomes Prime Minister. And he’s a popular politician within the “leave” movement.

“If you look back on their history, Boris Johnson had always been the senior to David Cameron throughout the entirety of his life”.

Political scientist Tim Bale at Queen Mary, University of London, said Johnson is the leading candidate because of the positive publicity generated by his performance at the helm of the “leave” campaign during the European Union referendum. While concern about immigration controls was a cornerstone of the leave campaign, out campaigner Daniel Hannan said this morning that people who voted out in order to see immigration fall would be disappointed. Sir Alan Duncan, who served as a Minister of State in the Department for International Development, said it should not be assumed that he was the “darling of Conservative Party activists”.

“The British people’s vote to leave is the start of a process and while that process is ongoing our existing trading relationships with the European Union and the rest of the world will continue as before”. But the moment of victory is fraught with challenges – first he will have to convince Conservative lawmakers to back him and then persuade the party’s largely eurosceptic wider membership, who may challenge what his critics call a record of changing his views to suit his audience.

Top EU officials have repeatedly pressed Britain for a quick exit to avoid a period of uncertainty for the remaining 27 EU countries. Trump congratulated the British people for “declaring their independence”, and suggested with characteristic self-regard that it was a development parallel to his own campaign and the shock waves that would be set off if he actually won. He rarely seemed to be speaking from a script or caring about his appearance or good visuals, instead riding around the country on a “battle bus”, emblazoned with hyperbolic slogans about the financial benefits of leaving the EU.

Johnson was mayor of London from 2008 until May this year where he re-entered Westminster as a member of Parliament for Uxbridge and South Ruislip.

“I will do everything I can to steady the ship over the coming weeks, but I do not think it would be right for me to try to be the captain that steers our country to its next destination”.

The former London Mayor cuts a controversial figure in the United Kingdom, for his buffoonish persona and occasional outbursts.