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Fewer than 100,000 Tories make Johnson Britain's next Prime Minister
Corbyn and the trade unions demand Johnson takes no-deal Brexit off the table and triggers a general election
Boris Johnson at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London where he was announced as the new Conservative party leader, and unelected Prime Minister
BORIS JOHNSON’S coronation as the next prime minister today triggered calls for a general election as he was picked by fewer than 100,000 Tory Party members.
The Uxbridge and South Ruislip Tory MP will take over from Theresa May tomorrow following her last stand-off with Jeremy Corbyn at Prime Minister’s Questions.
Mr Johnson will start his premiership with the lowest constituency majority — 5,034 — of any new prime minister in almost a century.
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