Boris Johnson overwhelmingly won the first round of voting Thursday in the race to replace outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May, with the field of candidates narrowed to seven from 10. “Obviously we’re happy with the results but there’s still a long way to go to winning the contest,” a spokesman for Johnson told reporters. “You have to hold the numbers to go through to the next round,” the spokesman said. The last pair standing will go up before 160,000 voting Conservative Party members across the country. “This is now neck-and-neck going into the next round,” Stewart told reporters after watching the results announcement.

Source: Punch June 13, 2019 12:31 UTC