Who Is Favourite To Lead The Country If Johnson Resigns?
The Independent|April 13, 2022
It's at times of crisis such as this - with 57 per cent of respondents to a snap YouGov poll believing Boris Johnson should resign as prime minister in the wake of being issued a fine over a Covid-19 lockdown party and calls from political rivals to go - that there is one place to naturally turn for guidance about the nation's future.
Sean O'grady
Who Is Favourite To Lead The Country If Johnson Resigns?

Not to the "senior backbenchers”, the academic historians or anyone else - but rather to the bookies for their guidance about the nation's future. Who is in line to lead Britain next?

The answer is Keir Starmer according to Oddschecker (I have no interests to declare, by the way). That's mixed news for the Tories. It seems to indicate that Boris Johnson is still safe enough in his job that be will in due course lead the Tories into the next election, and at a time of his choosing - but that he will most likely lose it.

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