Patrick Maguire,
New StatesmanBoris Johnson has won a commanding victory in the Conservative leadership election, beating Jeremy Hunt by a margin of more than two to one. The former foreign secretary won 66 per cent of the vote to his successor's 34 per cent on a turnout of 87 per cent of the Tory party membership, and will replace Theresa May as prime minister tomorrow. The scale of Johnson's triumph is precisely as his team had anticipated and hoped.
