The former British Economy Minister Rishi Sunak and former Defense Minister Penny Mordaunt led this Thursday, with 101 and 83 supports respectively, the second vote among conservative deputies to choose the replacement of Boris Johnson at the head of the party and, therefore, of the Government.
(You might be interested in: Why the UK is facing a more severe inflation crisis)
These figures indicate that both have increased their support among their fellow ranks, after yesterday, in the first vote, they got 88 and 67 votes, respectively.
(You might be interested in: United Kingdom: two candidates resign to succeed Boris Johnson)
Instead, Of the six candidates who were bidding this Thursday to continue in contention on the road to Tory leadership, the State Attorney General, Suella Braverman, was eliminated.with 27 votes.
For her part, the former Secretary of State for Equality Kemi Badenoch obtained 49, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Liz Truss, 64 and Tom Tugendhat, 32.
The still acting Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, was forced to resign on the 7th after almost 60 members of his Executive resigned en masse in protest at his management and the scandals that dotted his leadership, such as the parties at the residence of Downing Street during the pandemic.
Truss’s team indicated this Thursday, as soon as the result of this second round of voting was known, that the head of the Foreign Office “is attracting a wide range of support from the entire ‘tory’ spectrum”, suggesting that those who They had supported Braverman, they will now give him that support.
“As Liz (Truss) already pointed out in her speech, now is the time for MPs to rally behind the candidate who will cut taxes, deliver real economic change, continue to deliver the benefits of Brexit and make sure (Russian President , Vladimir) Putin loses the war in Ukraine,” said a spokesman for that team.
The same source noted that Truss “has the experience to deliver (with the mandate) from day one, grow the economy and support working families and beat Labour.
INTERNATIONAL WRITING
*With information from Efe
More world news:
-Crisis in Panama: Government calls for dialogue mediated by the Church
-EE The US will use ‘all’ its power to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon
-Portugal: between the fires and the heat wave “it seems the end of the world”
#Sunak #Mourdant #lead #race #succeed #Johnson