{"id":39490,"date":"2019-05-25T15:22:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T15:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39490"},"modified":"2019-05-25T15:22:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T15:22:52","slug":"boris-johnson-is-frontrunner-for-pm-but-hell-face-the-same-brexit-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39490","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson is frontrunner for PM but he&#8217;ll face the same Brexit nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">London (CNN)<\/cite>After months of speculation, attempts to oust her and parliamentary defeats, the fate of <a href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/2016\/08\/02\/europe\/theresa-may-fast-facts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Theresa May<\/a> is finally sealed. But although there is clarity about her political career &#8212; now she has announced she will resign on June 7 and set the timetable to elect a new Prime Minister &#8212; the future of the Conservative Party, the government and the UK is far from clear. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">All of this hinges now on who will be elected as May&#8217;s successor and that person&#8217;s position on Brexit.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The frontrunner is the former Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, the clear favorite among Conservative members who will ultimately elect a new leader &#8212; but they&#8217;ll only do so once two candidates are put forward for a runoff after a knockout contest by Tory lawmakers.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London (CNN)After months of speculation, attempts to oust her and parliamentary defeats, the fate of Theresa May is finally sealed. But although there is clarity about her political career &#8212; now she has announced she will resign on June 7 and set the timetable to elect a new Prime Minister &#8212; the future of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}