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The UK will find out on Monday whether Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss will take over as party leader and prime minister. Truss is expected to win.
Brief Boris Johnson but troubled His tenure as prime minister is over Having voluntarily stepped down after one crisis is too much for even a man once described as “Teflon-coated.” In the weeks that followed, many members of his party and government threw their hats into the ring or abandoned themselves from the race.
The months-long race for the party’s top seat – and one of the most powerful positions on the planet – has finally ended with a party-wide vote. Any paid party member, including those living abroad, had to submit a ballot on September 2 to have a say in any of the Two of the remaining candidates will succeed Johnson.
The chair of the 1922 Committee, made up of Tory MPs, will announce the result of the vote on Monday.
driving race
Alan Mendoza, executive director of the Henry Jackson Society, told Fox News Digital that there are “Without a doubt” Truss will winAnd that Sunak’s victory “would be nothing short of a miracle.”
“I think when it came to the party, it was obvious very early on [Sunak] It wasn’t a favourite, simply because the language Liz Truss spoke speaks more to where the Conservative Party wants it,” Mendoza explained. I think there was a reaction against, say, big spending and, you know, taxes on the Boris Johnson government.”
Conservative leadership candidates Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak stand together as they attend an event, as part of the Conservative Party leadership campaign, in London on August 31, 2022.
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Among the most diverse group of candidates for a party leadership election in British history are Sunak, the 42-year-old former Chancellor and Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Truss, the 47-year-old Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Commonwealth and Development Affairs.
Sunak led the charge over Johnson’s impeachment when he and Sajid Javid, the former Secretary of State for Health and Welfare, resigned almost simultaneously. He did so in response to Johnson’s defense of his counterpart Appointment Decision to Conservative Representative Chris Pincher As Vice President of Whip though Johnson later admitted that he was aware of complaints of sexual misconduct against the minister.
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Truss stood in stark contrast to Sunak and continued to support Johnson until the moment he announced he was stepping down as prime minister.
V. Sonic gears
Each minister took a different approach to try to convince the party that he had a vision for the country’s future. Sunak focused on height UK inflationTruss promised a tax cut once she took office.
Sunak also focused on restoring “confidence” to the leadership after Johnson’s many scandals.
Conservative leadership candidate Liz Truss speaks while being interviewed by British radio presenter Nick Ferrari during a raucous event, as part of the Conservative Party leadership campaign, in London, August 31, 2022.
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But Truss’ loyalty to Johnson, as well as her tax-based approach to dealing with mounting financial hardship, appears to have paid off. Sunak’s early and commanding lead fizzled out, making Truss the front-runner, according to most analysts.
“What Liz Truss says is that even though it was a foreign faction, she says, Look, give me a chance and I’ll lower taxes and give you more freedom, and I think that’s a message that has been very popular with Jadel Mendoza, at the grassroots level of the party.
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party vote
Neil Gardiner, director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, noted that Sunak’s lead in the first round of voting came from MPs while the final round includes the broader party membership of about 200,000, which would lean more toward the more difficult cogs. line approach.
“I think you can see that party membership, the grassroots of the Conservative Party, is pretty much to the right of the parliamentary party as a whole, and Liz Truss ran as Thatcher’s candidate,” Gardiner told Fox News Digital. “The vast majority of Conservative Party members are on the right, and they overwhelmingly endorsed Liz Truss, according to the poll.
British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, center, listens as Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks at the weekly Cabinet meeting in Downing Street on May 17, 2022 in London.
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“Rishi Sunak is definitely the center of the Conservative Party, not a Thatcherian politician.”
Members have a choice Vote by mail Or, for the first time, cast a ballot online. The British intelligence branch of the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) has postponed an earlier vote scheduled for the beginning of August due to concerns about hacking in the voting system – a concern many cybersecurity experts have continued to raise until the deadline, according to The Guardian.
“We do not have the technology to conduct voting securely online, and therefore should not be deployed in high-risk elections,” said Peter Ryan, Professor of Applied Security at the University of Luxembourg, He told the Wall Street Journal,. “And I take this as a big risk… At the moment, except for a major conceptual breakthrough, I don’t see how this can be done.”
take power
Once the winning party is declared, change must happen quickly. Johnson will formally resign on Tuesday morning, and the new party leader will take office – with a small twist.
“For the first time in her reign, Her Majesty will not be in London or Windsor for the new prime minister’s investment but in Scotland,” Mendoza noted, citing concerns about mobility issues such as the 96-year-old King’s vacations at Balmoral. “then , The winner must go to Scotland In addition to performing the section. And then immediately they should get to work, obviously, choosing the cabinet and then the lower ministerial ranks.”
Queen Elizabeth II welcomes Boris Johnson during a meeting at Buckingham Palace, where she will formally introduce him as the new Prime Minister in London on July 24, 2019.
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Cabinet turnover remains a mystery, although some selected cabinet ministers, including Defense Minister Ben WallaceThey should remain in office to provide some sense of continuity. Gardiner suggested that up to 80% of cabinet positions may have members.
But analysts expect the new government to start on Wednesday with all posts filled.
“What we understand is that there will be a cabinet meeting on Wednesday morning and a big speech,” Mendoza said.
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