Boris Johnson won the first round of elections for the post of Prime Minister of Great Britain

Former British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson escaped forward according to the results of the first round of voting for the future leader of the Conservative Party of Great Britain. It is reported by The Guardian.

Johnson scored 114 votes with the necessary 17. The second place was taken by the current British Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt - he has 43 votes.

“Thanks to my friends and colleagues in the conservative and unionist parties for your support. I am glad that I won the first round, but there is still a long way ahead, ”Johnson wrote on Twitter.

According to the results of the first round of voting, 7 candidates out of 10 are held on the second round. In addition to Johnson and Hunt, this is the Minister of Environment Michael Gow, the Minister of Health Matthew Hankok, the head of the British Ministry of Internal Affairs Sajid Javid, former British Minister of Britain Dominic Raaba and Minister of International Development Rory Stuart.

The former head of the House of British Commons Andrea Lids, the former Minister of Labor and Pensions Esther Makv and the former parliamentary secretary of the treasury Mark Harper did not go to the next round.

Voting will continue next week and will go in a similar format until two candidates are left. The name of the party leader, who will automatically become the prime minister of the country, will become known in the week that begins on July 22.

At the end of May, British Prime Minister Teresa May said she would resign.

Recall that the UK voted for leaving the European Union in 2016 and was supposed to officially leave its composition in March 2019, but this period was postponed twice. May failed to agree with the members of the UK parliament on the conditions of the UK exit from the EU.

In May, the British government postponed the decisive vote on Brexit, planned for the first week of June. This happened after the protest of supporters of the exit from the EU regarding the concessions made by Teresa May.

The government official Mark Spencer said that the government planned to vote under the bill on the introduction of Brexit on June 7, but could not record this date.