The New Prime Minister Will Be Unveiled On September 5
The Conservative Party stuck to its expected timetable for a leadership contest after the Tories appeared to resist a push to remove the prime minister sooner. Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 backbench committee, said party volunteers had insisted on “adequate opportunities to flee” across the country in August. “We have come to a satisfactory agreement on this,” he told reporters – leaving Johnson for another eight weeks in Downing Street for his “service”....