{"id":122980,"date":"2019-06-15T07:20:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T07:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/matt-hancock-drops-out-of-conservative-leadership-race\/"},"modified":"2019-06-15T07:20:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T07:20:04","slug":"matt-hancock-drops-out-of-conservative-leadership-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/matt-hancock-drops-out-of-conservative-leadership-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Hancock drops out of Conservative leadership race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1-matt-hancock-57ed79161196f-57ed791621e9b.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Health secretary Matt Hancock has dropped out of the race to lead the Conservative Party and become the next Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Hancock, who made it through the first round of voting yesterday with 20 votes, did not say which of his colleagues he would now back for the top job.<\/p>\n<p>He came sixth place in yesterdays vote, which saw three MPs \u2013 Andrea Leadsom, Mark Harper and Esther McVey \u2013 knocked out of the competition after they failed to meet the threshold of 17 backers.<\/p>\n<p>Boris Johnson topped the ballot with 114, followed by foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt with 42 and environment secretary Michael Gove with 31.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe party clearly is looking for a candidate to deal with the here and now,\u201d Hancock told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI very much put myself forward as the candidate focused on the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so Ive decide<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/matt-hancock-drops-out-of-conservative-leadership-race\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=matt-hancock-drops-out-of-conservative-leadership-race\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read More \u2013 Source<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n[contf]<br \/>\n[contfnew]<br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/loopup.com\/app\/uploads\/2016\/08\/cityam-logo.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CityAM<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>[contfnewc]<br \/>\n[contfnewc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health secretary Matt Hancock has dropped out of the race to lead the Conservative Party and become ..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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