This leadership election is special to The Telegraph readership for two reasons. First, most – if not all – of those voting are also our readers, and while that’s true of many Conservative contests, this is a rare occasion when they are picking not just a party leader but a Prime Minister. They are looking for a PM who can fulfil a very clear task: to honour the referendum and deliver Brexit.
Second, one of the candidates is a man our readership knows very well. In 1989, this newspaper sent a 24-year-old Boris Johnson to Brussels as a correspondent, and readers were able to follow his progress as he grew bemused, frustrated and exasperated with an EU bureaucracy hell-bent on wrapping Britain...
Boris Johnson is Mr Brexit. Elect him PM and give him a chance to deliver it
This leadership election is special to The Telegraph readership for two reasons. First, most – if not all – of those voting are also our readers, and while that’s true of many Conservative contests, this is a rare occasion when they are picking not just a party leader but a Prime Minister. They are looking for a PM who can fulfil a very clear task: to honour the referendum and deliver Brexit.
Second, one of the candidates is a man our readership knows very well. In 1989, this newspaper sent a 24-year-old Boris Johnson to Brussels as a correspondent, and readers were able to follow his progress as he grew bemused, frustrated and exasperated with an EU bureaucracy hell-bent on wrapping Britain...
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