Boris Johnson’s succession without a clear leader

In 2005, David Cameron was not the favorite to lead the Conservative Party and it was thanks to a particularly successful speech that he forced fate. In 2016, in the shock of the Brexit victory, no one was betting on Theresa May. But obscure internal quarrels blocked the two favorites, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, who destroyed each other. The then solid but discreet Home Secretary has become, to everyone’s surprise, the lowest common denominator and the second female Prime Minister in the history of the United Kingdom.