That was the question being asked on Tuesday after Boris Johnson, 55, won the Tory party leadership by beating his opponent, the foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt, by a margin to one. Boris got 92,153 votes to Hunt’s 46,656, with 87.4 per cent of ballots returned from 159,320 members. Boris won by a margin of two to one, but many had expected “four to one”. Boris and Hunt apparently had a long private talk in the greenroom before the count. Hunt admitted he was “very disappointed” by the result but said Boris will be “a great prime minister”.

Source: The Telegraph July 23, 2019 19:52 UTC