Liz Truss seems best placed to take over from Boris Johnson at 10 Downing Street. The head of British diplomacy has obtained new weighty support, facing her main rival, Rishi Sunak.
The head of diplomacy Liz Truss scored again on Monday August 1, 2022 to succeed Boris Johnson in Downing Street, garnering significant support as members of the British Conservative Party begin to vote to choose their new leader.
The head of diplomacy Liz Truss scored again on Monday August 1, 2022 to succeed Boris Johnson in Downing Street, garnering significant support as members of the British Conservative Party begin to vote to choose their new leader.
After a very open start to the campaign and a series of votes reserved for party MPs alone to select the two finalists, the suspense seems to have died down.
Favorite candidate of majority MPs, ex-finance minister Rishi Sunak, 42, praised for his action during the Covid-19 pandemic, is significantly less popular with the party base to become the next head of government.
With favorable polls following the first televised duels that pitted her against Mr. Sunak, Liz Truss, 47, who promises massive tax cuts, sees rallies multiply.
On the occasion of the launch of a great oral with the two candidates organized in Exeter (south-west) on Monday, the former candidate Penny Mordaunt, who had finished third in the race for Downing Street after the vote of the deputies, came out of her reserve to support the head of diplomacy.
Refusing to be a “weather vane”, she said she had to make a “difficult” choice. “I like both candidates,” but “I’ve seen enough to know who the person I’m going to believe is. And that’s Liz Truss.”
Earlier in the day, it was current finance minister Nadhim Zahawi who came out in support of Ms Truss, telling the Daily Telegraph that she would “overturn worn-out economic orthodoxy and steer our economy from a conservative manner.
Ms Truss also counts former Northern Ireland Minister Brandon Lewis, unsuccessful party leader MP Tom Tugendhat and highly respected Defense Minister Ben Wallace among her backers.