LONDON, July 11 (Xinhua) -- As more candidates have announced their leadership bids to replace Boris Johnson as Britain's new prime minister, a period of "relative calm" is expected in the British caretaker government, a political expert told Xinhua.
"What's really going to happen is that there will be a period of relative calm in British politics, during which there will be a caretaker government taking over, rather than doing anything imaginative or original," Professor Iain Begg from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) told Xinhua in an interview on Saturday.
Johnson resigned on Thursday following a dramatic cabinet revolt over his scandal-hit leadership, but he will stay on as caretaker prime minister until a new Tory leader is elected.
"What we can expect is that for the next two to three months, many initiatives of the government will be put on hold because Boris Johnson is staying in power as Prime Minister, but he's not really going to have much capacity to do anything that requires major initiatives or taking the government of the economy in different directions," Begg said.
Begg expects a quick return to normalcy once a new Tory leader emerges and succeeds Johnson as the new prime minister.
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