British Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned from his post on Thursday. for the scandals that caused an avalanche of resignations, including two heavyweights from his government just on Wednesday.
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With no clear successor, various names are circulating as possible candidates to replace him.
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Rishi Sunak
Finance Minister Rishi Sunak, the first Hindu to hold the post, was one of
the two prominent ministers who resigned on Tuesday. He had once been the overwhelming favorite to succeed Johnson, but lost legitimacy in the wake of a series of scandals.
They revolved around the advantageous tax status of his Indian billionaire wife, which allowed him to avoid paying millions in taxes in the UK, and the US residence permit that Sunak had until last year.
Former Goldman Sachs bank analyst and hedge fund employee, married to the daughter of an Indian tycoon, Sunak, whose grandparents emigrated from northern India to the UK in the 1960s, amassed a substantial personal fortune before becoming a MP in 2015.
The 42-year-old Brexit campaigner was appointed finance minister in 2020, a key post amid the pandemic, but has been criticized for doing too little.
to counteract the suffocating crisis due to the skyrocketing cost of living.
Jeremy Hunt
Former Foreign and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, 55, lost to Boris Johnson in the 2019 Conservative leadership electionin which he presented himself as the “serious” alternative.
Since then it is considered that he has been waiting for the moment and preparing
to run again, building his support and staying out of the Johnson administration.
A colleague of Hunt and former Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron at Oxford University, Hunt, who taught English in Japan and is fluent in Japanese, is chairman of the Parliamentary Health Committee.
He has a “nice guy” image, although some consider him to lack charisma.
Liz Truss
Without mincing words and very critical of the protest movements baptized “woke”, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Liz Truss, has become very popular in the bases of the Conservative Party.
This 46-year-old woman, who for a decade worked in the energy and telecommunications sectors, was appointed chief of diplomacy as a reward for her work as minister of international trade during the British exit from the European Union.
In that position, this great defender of free trade, who voted to remain in the EU before changing sides, managed to close a series of important post-Brexit trade agreements.
Sajid Javid
Health Minister Sajid Javid was the other government and Conservative Party heavyweight to resign on Tuesday in protest against the prime minister.
The son of a Pakistani immigrant bus driver, he was a renowned banker before becoming Johnson’s finance minister.
He resigned in 2020 and returned to government a year ago. Javid, 52, voted in 2016 in favor of remaining in the EU because of the economic benefits it brought, but later joined the Brexit cause.
Pritti Patel
Home Secretary Priti Patel, 50, is the most conservative of
Johnson’s ministers.
A strong supporter of Brexit, she also voted against same-sex marriage. She was born in London into a Ugandan-Indian family and has taken a very hard line on immigration.
Despite his promises, the number of migrants arriving illegally across the English Channel is currently at record levels. A great admirer of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and accused of workplace harassment of her collaborators, Patel worked in public relations before entering politics.
I was delighted to meet everyone in person at #PFEW22 again and reaffirm my promise to continue championing your cause in Government.
I welcome the @PFEW_HQ back to the table on police pay negotiations. pic.twitter.com/WgiMPmHARa
— Priti Patel (@pritipatel) May 17, 2022
Tom Tugendhat
The chairman of the House of Commons Foreign Relations Committee was the first to openly announce his intention to stand if Boris Johnson resigns or is impeached. A former British Army officer, he served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Born to a British father and a French mother, Tom Tugendhat, 48, is perfectly bilingual.
Penny Mourdaunt
Former Minister of Defense and currently Secretary of State for Foreign Trade, Penny Mordaunt, 49, was one of the figures in the campaign in favor of Brexit in 2016 and since then has worked to negotiate trade agreements for the United Kingdom.
Considered a good speaker, it is estimated that she could be a unity candidate, capable of obtaining support from different wings of the Conservative Party.
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*With information from AFP
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