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After weeks of clinging on, Boris Johnson has agreed to resign as British prime minister. What happens now, and what challenges will his successor face?

We analyse the determinants of ministerial hazard rates in Britain from 1945 to 1997. We focus on three sets of attributes (i) personal characteristics of the minister; (ii) political characteristics of the minister; and (iii) characteristics pertaining to the government in which the minister serves. We find that educational background increases ministers' capacity to survive, that female ministers have lower hazard rates and older ministers have higher hazard rates. Experienced ministers have higher hazard rates than newly appointed ministers. Ministerial rank increases a minister's capacity to survive, with full cabinet members having the lowest hazard rates in our sample.We use different strategies to control for the characteristics of the government the minister serves in. Our results are robust to any of these controls.

The article examines the complex relationship between the British Foreign Office and Israel. It argues that in 1976 was a year of transformation in the relationship as the Foreign Office shifted towards a more critical approach towards Israel following the resignation of the British Prime Minister Harold Wilson. It makes use of newly available documentary sources from the National Archives in London, which illustrate how the Foreign Office used the resignation of the widely perceived pro-Israel Wilson, and the arrival in power of James Callaghan, to quietly shift British policy towards the Arab-Israeli conflict to fall more into line with the policies of Britain's European Partners.

Since 1963, the British Conservative Party has repeatedly changed the way it selects its leader. In this article, I re-examine the history of Conservative leadership selection in British politics. I begin by analysing the informal system of leadership selection, known as the ‘magic circle’, whereby the Conservative leader ‘emerged’ from a shadowy process of consultation. I then consider the six elections between 1965 and 1997, when Conservative MPs – and they alone – chose the Party Leader. Finally, I explain and assess the impact of the ‘Hague rules’, according to which Party members have the final say, on Conservative leadership selection since 1998.

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