A No 10 spokesman said: "The prime minister will make a statement to the country today."
He is expected to remain as PM until the autumn when a new leader will be elected, likely at the party conference in October.

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7th July 2022
09:53am BST

A No 10 spokesman said: "The prime minister will make a statement to the country today."
He is expected to remain as PM until the autumn when a new leader will be elected, likely at the party conference in October.
If a Conservative leader resigns, this triggers a contest for a new party leader.
This happened in 2019 when Theresa May triggered an election when she stepped down in May of that year with this tearful speech.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJIv3yzC430 The election takes place in two stages. In the first stage (shortlisting), Conservative MPs put their own names forward. MPs then vote in a series of rounds to whittle down the candidates. In the first two rounds, the candidates who don’t meet a certain threshold of votes are eliminated. For all subsequent ballots, the candidate who comes last is eliminated, until there are only two candidates remaining. In stage two, the party membership is balloted on which of the two final candidates they prefer. The timescale for each contest is set out by the 1922 Committee.Boris Johnson's term in office is one of the shortest.
According to the National Archives, he will have had the seventh-shortest span in office, behind Gordon Brown and Neville Chamberlain.
Even Theresa May, the PM Boris successfully booted out of Number 10, lasted longer.
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