In the race for the new election, the first round of ballots will be cast on Wednesday conservative Party leader who will replace boris johnson As Prime Minister of Britain, with Rishi, British Indian former finance minister sunki Hold onto your lead.
A shortlist of eight candidates on the first ballot includes Attorney General Suella Braverman, Foreign Secretary Lizzo trussChancellor Nadim Jahavi, Minister of Trade Penny MordauntFormer cabinet ministers Cami Badenoch and Jeremy Hunt and Tory backbencher Tom Tugendhat.
Each of the eight came face-to-face at the first closed-door in front of fellow Conservative Party lawmakers who pitched for their support in 12-minute speeches on Tuesday evening after nominations for the race closed.
358 Tory members of parliament will cast their first set of votes for their favorite and the shortlisted candidates will advance to the next round only if they have the support of at least 30 of their allies. If all eight hit that figure, the candidate with the fewest votes will be eliminated from a second round of secret voting scheduled for Thursday.
In an interview with ‘The Daily Telegraph’, Sunak stated that tackling inflation is his “number one economic priority”, and claimed that former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a symbol of the Tory party’s right, changed his approach. would have supported.
“I believe I am in the best position to restore confidence, rebuild the economy and reunite the country. I believe I can appeal in a wider range of places,” said the former chancellor, whose ” Ready 4 Rishi” campaign theme 3 is made up of Rs – trust restored; reconstruction of the economy; Reunite the country.
He said, “I was brought up to believe that hard work is everything and the core of who I am. That’s what makes me conservative that I believe in the nobility of work.”
Even in the early stages, the leadership race has been mired in accusations of “dirty tricks” with the so-called “stop sage” group of Johnson loyalists throwing their weight behind Liz Truss and on the sunk camp. Are accusing you of trying to fix the process.
“crew Shi They want candidates they know they can definitely beat in the last two and that’s Jeremy Hunt,” tweeted Culture Secretary Nadine Doris, who is backing the truce.
The tax issue has also been in the limelight for the Tories in favor of lower-tax, with another Johnson loyalist branding Sunak as a tax-hiking chancellor.
Another Tory heavyweight cabinet minister, Jacob Rees-Mogg, said, “I think as a chancellor he made decisions on the left rather than on the right. He was a tax-raising chancellor and I did not support the decisions he made.” ” support truss.
While Sunak and Truss are the current frontrunners, Penny Mordant enjoys strong support from the Conservative Party’s grassroots level. The race will shrink sharply after the candidates with the least support are consistently excluded from the ballots until next week.
Under the timetable set by the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers, the deadline for narrowing down the shortlist for only the two remaining candidates is July 21. The process of holding a series of hustings in various parts would then be handled by the Conservative Party headquarters. The UK for Contenders pledges its campaign for an estimated 200,000 Conservative Party membership.
The candidate with the most votes will be elected the new leader of the Conservative Party and will take over as British Prime Minister.
It is expected that the new Tory leader will be announced on 5 September and that he will address his first Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQ) in the House of Commons on 7 September.
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