Labor will present a motion of censure against Boris Johnson’s government on Tuesday

Labor will present in the next few hours a motion of censure against the British Government after it was confirmed that Boris Johnson will remain prime minister, at least until next September 5. If the motion is successful, which could be debated and voted on this Wednesday, Johnson’s immediate resignation would be forced and early elections.

As published by HuffPost UK Y Reuters The motion will be presented in the next few hours, expected this Tuesday.

Just a few days ago the Labor leader Keir Starmer he made it clear that “if the Conservatives don’t get rid of Johnson, we’ll step up and move a no-confidence motion.”

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“He has to go. Can’t hold on. They cannot impose it on the country for the next several months,” Starmer said.

as it progresses Huff Post UK, Labor will present the motion on Tuesday and MPs are expected to debate and vote on it on Wednesday. “It is certain that the motion will not go ahead because it will not have the support of conservative parliamentarians,” predicts the British newspaper.

“This will put pressure on the Tories conservatives. They cannot be hypocrites. They must back Labor and admit we were right,” a Labor source tells Huff Post UK.

Johnson will leave on September 5

Labor’s decision comes just a few hours after the Conservative Party made public this Monday the regulations and the calendar that will culminate the September 5 with the election of Boris Johnson’s successor as leader tory and, consequently, as the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

In order to speed up the primaries to remove him from power, the so-called 1922 Committee, which brings together the conservative parliamentary group, has agreed on new electoral rules, after renewing its own executive.

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For reduce the number of candidateswhich is already approaching ten, the committee, chaired by Graham Brady, has decided that the candidates to succeed Johnson will need the support of at least 20 deputies Tories, of the 8 required so far.

Two knockout rounds

The 1922 Committee plans to hold two knockout rounds this week -Wednesday and Thursday- and I would organize more next week if necessary. The intention is to have two finalists before the parliamentary summer recess, which begins on July 21.

The two candidates with the most votes by the deputies would then undergo a election by mail among the members ofThe ruling party -some 200,000, according to 2021 data-, after an electoral campaign in August, indicated the head of the parliamentarians Tories.

This means that barely 0.30% of the 67.2 million inhabitants of the United Kingdom will choose the future prime minister, unless in the coming months the winner calls an early general election, as Labor is already calling for. Currently, they are planned for 2024.

Once the Conservative leader is revealed on September 5, the process for him to be appointed Prime Minister can be organized within 24 hours and requires going to Buckingham Palace to be invested by Queen Elizabeth II of England.

Sunak the favorite

The term of presentation of candidacies for the primary elections of the Conservative Party, with the mandatory nominations, begins and ends this Tuesday.

At least 11 candidates have applied to succeed Johnson, including the one who was Economy Minister during the pandemic, Rishi Sunak, and the still Foreign Minister, Liz Truss.

While Sunak already has 36 nominations, other colleagues are expected to fall by the wayside by not bringing them together.

Although the former chancellor of the Exchequer is the bookmakers favoritea survey among the conservative bases shows in the first place Penny Mordaunt, currently Secretary of State for Commerce who was previously Minister of Defense in the Executive tory by Theresa May.

Members also support the relatively unknown Kemi Badenoch, Secretary of State for Equality, and Sunak in third place, while the last positions are occupied by Sajid Javid – health minister whose resignation on Tuesday precipitated Johnson’s downfall; Grant Shapps, transport minister; and the Minister of the Interior, Pritti Patel -who has not yet confirmed if he will apply-.