Six candidates face a second round of voting this Thursday (14) to take over as the next prime minister of the United Kingdom, in place of Boris Johnson.
After the decision to resign by the current prime minister, conservative lawmakers will vote for their preferred candidates, having already eliminated two in the first round, this Wednesday (13).
When two finalist candidates remain, the winner will be chosen in a broad vote of the more than 160,000 members of the Conservative Party, with a postal vote. The winner will be announced on September 5th.
The remaining candidates include Kemi Badenoch, who has held junior ministerial positions, including most recently that of Minister of Equality, but has never served in the Prime Minister’s Office.
A former Conservative of the London Assembly, she also served as Vice-President of the Conservative Party. Badenoch, 42, supported leaving the European Union in the 2016 referendum.
Suella Braverman, the current British attorney general, has been heavily criticized by lawyers after the government tried to violate international law on post-Brexit trade rules in Northern Ireland.
She campaigned to leave the EU and served as a junior minister in the Brexit Department under former Prime Minister Theresa May, but resigned in protest at the proposed Brexit deal, saying she did not go far enough to sever ties with the EU. block.
Penny Mourdaunt, the former secretary of defense, was fired by Johnson when he became prime minister after she endorsed his rival Jeremy Hunt during the 2019 leadership race.
Now a junior minister of commerce, Mordaunt called government officials who violated Covid-19 lockdown laws for parties “shameful” and said that if she is prime minister, leadership needs to change to be less about the leader. .
Rishi Sunak announced his candidacy for leadership with a campaign video in which he vowed to face the difficult economic landscape with “honesty, seriousness and determination” rather than burdening future generations.
Sunak, 42, became finance minister in early 2020 and was lauded for a Covid-19 economic rescue package, including an expensive job retention program that averted mass unemployment.
Liz Truss, the foreign minister, has been the darling of the Conservative Party’s rank and file and regularly leads polls of party members conducted by the Conservative Home website.
Truss has a carefully cultivated public image and was photographed in a tank last year, echoing a famous 1986 photo of Thatcher.
Tom Tugendhat, chairman of the parliament’s foreign affairs committee, and a former soldier who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, he is relatively untested because he never served in the Cabinet.
Tugendhat, 49, has been a regular critic of Johnson and would offer his party a break from previous administrations.
Source: CNN Brasil
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