The candidates will compete to replace Prime Minister Boris Johnson who came out of England
Eight of the eleven members of the Tory Parliament qualified to enter the race to become the leader of the Conservative Party and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, after getting support from at least 20 of their colleagues at the time of the voting was closed on Tuesday night. Rishi Sung, 42, a former Chancellor of the Minister of Finance, led the race, followed by Foreign Minister Liz Truss. The first round of voting is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, with candidates need more than 30 MP votes to remain in the race.
Previously on Tuesday, Mr. Sunan defended Prime Minister Boris Johnson, at an event to launch his own campaign for the prime minister’s work. He has come out of the cabinet Mr. Johnson last Tuesday on the grounds of differences with Mr. Johnson. The Prime Minister, on Thursday, announced that he would resign in the near future, after the mass resignation of his government, joined the dozens of parliamentary members.
“As a candidate to replace him, we owe the British people who chose Boris as Prime Minister in 2019, to explain why he left the office,” said Mr. The Prime Minister replaced, with those who replaced him withdrawing “curtains and acting like that is none of business other than their property”.
Mr. Sung said, Mr. Johnson was one of the “extraordinary” people he had ever met and that he would not participate in the re -writing of history who wanted to “vilify Boris”, enlarged his mistakes.
Break the rules
Mr. Sung, like his former boss, was criticized and fined for violating Pandemic locking rules to attend Mr. Birthday Party. Johnson at Downing Street in June 2020. Former Chancellor, who was married to Akshata Murthy, daughter of the founder of Infosys N.R. Narayana Murthy, is also in the spotlight because his wife has saved to pay taxes on his foreign income, as an expat that lives in the UK.
He was also criticized for holding on to his US ‘green card’, despite being a public servant in the UK. If elected to lead Toreies, Mr. Sung will be the first and first British prime minister from India.
Other people who meet the requirements on Tuesday including the Minister of Trade Penny Mordaunt and former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt. Another former Health Secretary, Sajid Javid, who, like Mr. Sung, has resigned on Tuesday last week, withdrawing from the race on Tuesday. Members of the conservative party will eventually vote from two candidates, with the expected results on September 5.
Mr Sunan received some support on Tuesday: he was introduced by the Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of the Judiciary Dominic Raab at the event. The Secretary of Transportation Grant Shapp, who was previously in running, withdrawing from the race and also attended the campaign event. Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock also announced that he supported the former Chancellor. .
Domestic Secretary Preeti Patel, a controversial policy architect relocating refugees who arrived in the UK to Rwanda, said on Tuesday that he would not be in a race.
Focus on directing the British economy
Mr. Campaign Center Saunk is getting the British economy with a better footing. He said on Tuesday he planned to direct the economy through the “headwinds” faced. Inflation is expected to reach 11% this year, according to the British bank, although it is expected to make it easier in 2023. Mr. Suna said she would cut off tax so inflation under control.
“This is a question when not if,” he said.
Mr. S was also committed, on Tuesday, to stick to the promise of Mr. Johnson told the North Atlantic Agreement Organization (NATO), that Britain would increase its defense expenditure to 2.5 % from GDP in 2030 (MIS., Above NATO’s annual target of 2 %). He said NATO guidelines were “floor and not sky -ceiling” and that his approach to defense expenditure would be “threat -based”.
As the Tories sort through their candidates to find a leader, Labour will table a no confidence motion in the British Parliament on Wednesday — a move to prevent Mr. Johnson from continuing in Downing Street until September 5. If the move succeeds, the country could be heading for a general election.
