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Originally Posted by Damien
There are suggestions that the candidates should drop out to allow a quicker process and get the new PM in. Hard to justify staying in this situation without a functioning government when it's clear Johnson is going to win so might as well give him the extra month....
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Perhaps they should, but the rationale for staying in for the time being is to demonstrate their support within the party and increase their chances of a plum ministerial job in BoJo’s first cabinet.
The remaining rounds of voting will all take place fairly quickly next week and the members ballot is postal, so there’s not really much scope for speeding things up now anyway, unless everyone bar Boris drops out (and I don’t think that’s a good idea for the country or the party).