Britian to elect its new Prime Minister on July 23: Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt chosen as contendors to replace May

Britain will elect its new Prime Minister on July 23. contenders for replacing resa May are Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt. decision will be anunced on July 23, UK's ruling Conservative Party said Tuesday.

party which is in charge of leership contest to replace resa May as Conservative Party leer and Prime Minister, however, did t indicate timeframe for when new Tory leer would take charge at 10 Downing Street after a formal handover of power. Conservative Party in a statement said that:

" anuncement of next leer of Conservative Party will be me on Tuesday 23 July. This process has been agreed with both candidates," 

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two candidates were chosen from a field of 10 by Conservative party's 313 MPs. Postal ballots are set to be issued to an estimated 166,000 Tory party members across UK between July 6 and 8, with polls set to close by 5 pm on July 22 after which counting process will begin for result to be declared next day. A candidate achieving more than 50 percent of vote among Party members will be elected as Party Leer.

As per reports, new leer will t move into Downing Street right away and will possibly have to wait for a few days. UK Parliament's autumn recess is set to commence from July 25, which could mean that new Prime Minister is unlikely to face MPs in House of Commons until early September. When asked about delay, Commons leer Mel Stride on Tuesday told MPs: 

"Parliament would express its will if re were any likelihood of that becoming an issue," 

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Meanwhile, former foreign secretary Johnson, frontrunner in race, focussed on a series of interviews after his opponent, foreign secretary Hunt accused him of being a coward for failing to appear for a television debate.

"It's time this country frankly stopped being so down about its ability to get this thing done," Johnson said in one of many interviews, as he tried to shift focus away from a few days of negative publicity around a domestic row with his girlfriend.

"For three years we've been sitting around wrapped in defeatism telling British public that y can't do this or that. It is patic, it's absolutely patic," he said, in reference to Brexit. Amber Rudd, UK work and pensions secretary who is batting for Hunt in race, asserted that Johnson was making a mistake by shying away from debates and demanded he "go furr" in explaining his Brexit plan.

"This is an incredibly difficult situation and Boris needs to explain how he will deal with both sides of Conservative Party that have concerns and try and break impasse with European Union. Enthusiasm and optimism is t sufficient," she said.

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Both candidates will continue to travel up and down UK for scheduled hustings to try and garner eugh votes in ir favour.