Britain: Rishi Sunak, who joined the family during the campaign, said ‘I am a Dalit’

sunkiThe resignation helped trigger a rebellion in which Prime Minister Boris Johnson agreed to step down after a series of scandals. Members of the ruling Conservative Party will vote for a successor over the summer, which will be announced on 5 September.

Sunak led an all-round voting between the party’s MPs to reduce the fray to two candidates.

But it looks like Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has so far gleaned from the governing party’s 200,000 members who will ultimately choose the winner.

Truss takes a lead of 24 points sunki In a YouGov poll of Conservative Party members published Thursday.

Sunak said in a speech in the central England town of Grantham, the birthplace of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, “No doubt, I am the underdog.” “The forces that want it to be a coronation for another candidate, but I think the members want an alternative and they are ready to listen.”

Truss will only be Britain’s third female prime minister after Thatcher and Theresa May, while Sunak will be the country’s first leader of Indian origin.

So far the focus of the campaign has been on pledges, or non-pledges, to cut taxes at a time when many are struggling, as well as defense spending and energy policy.

in his speech, sunki He called “common sense Thatcherism” promising careful management of the economy before the tax cuts.

He questioned the ethics of immediate tax cuts proposed by the truss at a time of rising inflation and criticized it as arbitrary to increase defense spending to 3% of GDP by 2030.

Truss says tax cuts are needed to boost growth.

“It is wrong to take money from people, which we don’t need to take when people across the country are facing life crises,” he told reporters after meeting party members in Kent, south east England.

In an interview for Saturday TimeK’s newspaper, Sunak, said he would put the government in trouble if he took office.

The Truss has also promised to repeal all remaining EU laws that still apply in the UK by 2023.

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