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Boris Johnson tops list of UK leadership vote
Boris Johnson tops list of UK leadership vote
Boris Johnson has 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.
The Brexit-backing former foreign minister picked up 114 of the 313 votes cast in a secret ballot of Conservative Party lawmakers in the lower House of Commons.
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, better known as Boris Johnson, is a British politician, journalist and popular historian who has been the Member of Parliament for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015, having been the MP for Henley from 2001 to 2008.
