After several names were considered to take the position of Boris Johnson as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, currently the main polls of intention to vote indicate that the current Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Liz Truss must be the new British prime minister.
About 200,000 Conservative Party members are voting between one of two contestants: Truss and Rishi Sunak. The result will be announced this Monday (5).
Under the rules of the British system, when a prime minister does not serve his entire term, the party he belongs to must choose a new leader. In that case, the Conservative Party is responsible for choosing the next prime minister until general elections take place again.
The race for the lead in the legend started with ten candidates, and after five rounds of voting, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak were chosen, on July 20, as finalists. Sunak won 137 votes to Truss’s 113 in the final round.
According to a poll carried out by the YouGov institute for Sky News, released on the 18th, Truss was 32 percentage points ahead of his opponent, Rishi Sunak.
The conservative had 66% of voting intentions, while Sunak had 34% and 13% said they were undecided or would not vote.
The candidate has accompanied Johnson since the beginning of his government, remaining after all the scandals that spanned the term that began in 2019.
In the final controversy that led to the resignation of Johnson and a series of government officials, involving the appointment of Chris Pincher, she justified that she would remain in office because she was coordinating the UK’s response to the invasion of Ukraine.
In her campaign to take over the leadership of the party and, consequently, the post of prime minister, the secretary has defended a conservative agenda, pledging to reduce taxes, break EU regulations and encourage private sector growth with low corporate taxes. .
Truss is also determined to deliver the Northern Ireland Protocol bill – concerning a disagreement with the EU over how to deal with customs arrangements for goods traveling between Britain and Northern Ireland.
*With information from Renata Sousa, from CNN
Source: CNN Brasil
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