Bor-exit has begun.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who guided the UK through its arguable exit from the European Union, is hitting bricks in London. go at a slower pace. As a result, it may be months before a new prime minister is appointed.
Traditionally, sitting prime ministers remain in office until their successors are selected, and Johnson said on Thursday he intends to do the same. It will be completed until October, according to the BBC. Si more than two candidates are running for the job, the Conservatives in Parliament will hold a series of votes to reduce the field. Then, the party’s roughly 200,000 members will vote by mail for the winner.
It is conceivable that conservatives will try to speed up this procedure as much as possible. Kwasi Kwarteng, a Conservative MP, tweeted on Thursday that the party deserves to decide on a new leader “as soon as possible”. Meanwhile, leaders of the opposition Labour Party have threatened to call for a motion of no confidence across Parliament, which would force Johnson to resign without delay if a majority voted to oust him.
Another complication is the lack of a transparent successor in the ranks of the Conservative Party, creating a potentially messy leadership battle.
Suella Braverman, the current attorney general of England and Wales (in the British system, the attorney general is a member of parliament; yes, that’s rare), threw her hat into the ring on Wednesday, a full day before Johnson announced his resignation. She is a second-generation immigrant and a Brexit hardliner who has been called upon in British politics to oppose the more flexible Brexit deals that former Prime Minister Theresa May tried to achieve before being replaced by Johnson.
Tom Tugendhat, a Conservative MP who has opposed Brexit and clashed with Johnson, has also announced his intention to run for prime minister, according to The Associated Press.
The undeclared applicants who may be favourites come with two prominent lawmakers whose resignations from positions in Johnson’s government caused this week’s chaos: Health Secretary Sajid Javid and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak. Either way, the dozen applicants potentially vying to upgrade Johnson will reflect a conversion to British society and an evolving Conservative Party, the New York Times notes. The race may come with “a son of Indian immigrants, an Iraqi refugee, several women and the son of a Pakistani bus driver. “
Jeremy Hunt, who briefly overtook Johnson in the leadership race in 2019, is also likely to run. far from all the blockades if we had been much faster and had set up testing and tracing as they did in South Korea and Taiwan,” he says in May. On other issues, he is “considered a moderate and positions himself as a safe pair of hands to upgrade to Johnson, more erratic,” Axios reports.
Another candidate that libertarians may need to consider is Steve Baker, the Conservative MP, who has earned a reputation as a rebellious and independent voice in Parliament. He is an avowed follower of Austrian economics and uses “Enjoy freedom responsibly” as the slogan of the crusade. “Some other people I deeply respect tell me, even implore me, to [run for the post of prime minister],” Baker told BBC Radio on Thursday.
However, the end of Johnson’s term as prime minister is a bittersweet moment for libertarians, writes Robert Jackman for Reason: “For all his arrangements with blockades that crush freedom, many of us still when Johnson was the spoiled child of the freedom-loving right, was the politician who made his career mobilizing against the excesses of the nanny state while mocking fools and fools. the bureaucrats. “
It is those impulses that have made Johnson an effective Brexit campaigner. But after finalizing Britain’s exit from the EU, Johnson ruled more like a classic politician, a trend that led him to take very little political stances on the COVID-19 pandemic. He also supported policies that made higher government budgets, expanded tax coffers, and even tried to tell Britons how to eat better by banning classified TV ads for “chips” (which we Americans call “chips”).
“For all his promises, the fact is that Johnson, the supposed savior of the Conservative right, will eventually leave a Britain far less loose than the one he inherited,” Jackman writes. “Many will continue to congratulate him on achieving Brexit, but that doesn’t get the point. While the UK would possibly be outside the EU’s legal orbit, we have done almost nothing to get it to credit, retaining the vast majority of regulations that Johnson used to so persuasively annoy.
MLB “just avoids testing” for COVID-19, says New York Mets pitcher Chris Bassitt, who missed a start last week after testing positive despite a lack of symptoms.
Bassitt told ESPN on Thursday that he “probably wouldn’t notify” team and league officials if he tests positive unless he feels sick. forcing an asymptomatic player to miss several games just for complying with the rules. This is a dilemma and frustration that anyone who has had to deal with a COVID-19 positive check recently can relate to.
“Just avoid testing. Stop acting like COVID is much worse than a lot of other things,” Bassitt said. “I’ve never been sick. “
The sport has been at the forefront of the evolution of america’s reaction to COVID-19 since the NBA shut down in March 2020 when the pandemic hit. evolution away from social restrictions and mask mandates.
Bassitt’s comments may constitute the next step on the road to normalcy as (fortunately) less harmful strains of COVID-19 continue to circulate.
Humanitarian aid to Ukraine will be delayed and further done through protectionist navigation rules:
Food aid shipments must come from the United States, and at least some of the aid must be transported through U. S. -flagged vessels and U. S. crews.
These regulations increase shipping prices by up to one hundred percent (!) And they delay the delivery of aid up to four months (!!) pic. twitter. com/fhYyexLXnO
– Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) July 8, 2022
Shinzo Abe killed while giving a speech. Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister before resigning from his workplace in 2020.
Abe had 2 gunshot wounds and no major symptoms when he arrived at the hospital, according to authorities.
• 1 detainee
• Video shows what appears to be an improvised weapon
https://t. co/iLn54Oseff pic. twitter. com/v6lJ0UyeM1
– NBC News (@NBCNews) July 8, 2022
A 41-year-old suspect has been arrested and early reports imply the weapon may have been a homemade shotgun.
• President Joe Biden will issue an executive order Friday directing the Department of Health and Human Services to take several steps to access abortion and contraception.
• Despite fears of an upcoming recession, the U. S. economy is struggling to cope with the U. S. economy. The U. S. Department of Homeland Security added 372,000 jobs in June, the Labor Department said Friday morning. Unemployment remained solid at 3. 6%.
• American basketball star Brittney Griner has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking rates in Russia, further complicating the diplomatic relationship created following her arrest in February.
• Elon Musk’s deal to buy Twitter may collapse. A source in Musk’s camp told the Washington Post that the social media site’s knowledge of spam accounts is unverifiable.
• After all, scientists would probably have figured out why T. rex had the short arms mentioned.
Eric Boehm is a journalist at Reason.