Who gets to choose who becomes the UK's next prime minister?
Conservative MPs are currently battling it out to replace Boris Johnson as their leader and our next prime minister - but it is the party membership that will get the final say.There won't be a general election when Boris Johnson stands down as prime minister, because the Conservative Party is already in power.
We don't know exactly how many members the party has because they won't tell us, but it is over 160,000, or about 0.3% of the total UK electorate.Like members of the other major parties, Tories tend to be older, more middle class and more white than the rest of the population.Queen Mary University of London and Sussex University Party Members Project
"They're not as diverse ethnically; they're heavily concentrated in the south of England; there are significantly more men than women; they're generally better off; and, although they're not quite as elderly as some imagine , they're still relatively old.
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