Rishi Sunak officially entered the race for leadership of the Conservative Party and UK government on Sunday, joining Penny Mordaunt, who was the first to announce her candidacy on Friday.
Former Finance Minister, lost to Les Truss In the final vote to choose Boris Johnson’s successor, at the beginning of September, he gathered, even before the candidacy was announced, support 100 extra deputies The Conservatives – the latest count gives a count of 136 parliamentarians – the minimum set by the 1922 Committee of Parliamentary Group to be able to vote.
“The UK is a great country, but we are facing a deep economic crisis,” Sunak said on his Twitter account. “That’s why I’m running to be the next Conservative Party leader and prime minister.”
“My desire is to reform the economy, unite the party, and meet the expectations of our country,” he wrote, promising “integrity, professionalism, and accountability at all levels of government.”
Among the likely candidates to succeed Liz Truss in leadership of the British party and government, it remains to be seen whether Boris Johnson You will enter, this Sunday, the race. Jacob Rees-Mogg, current and first Secretary of Commerce Tori Publicly expressing his support for the former prime minister, he said this Sunday that Johnson would “clearly run”.
Reese-Mogg confirmed that Johnson has already reached the hundreds of support needed to run for leadership, but along with Sunak’s supporters, doubts remain as to whether that support is real. For now, according to BBC statistics, Truss’ predecessor will only have amassed the support of 56 Conservative MPs.
“People who do the counting in Boris’ campaign tell me they have the numbers,” he said. race waveTo whom would Johnson be accepted again as prime minister because he is “the greatest electoral asset of the Conservative Party in modern times”.
Johnson met Saturday night with sonak But the talk between the two parties did not lead to any agreement on a possible government solution in the near future.
The deadline for submitting nominations with the announced support of 100 parliamentarians ends at 2 pm on Monday. If only one candidate with this number of endorsements is submitted, they will automatically be declared the winner. If there are two candidates, deputies conservative They will hold an “indicative” vote on their favorite candidate at the end of the afternoon, and the choice between the finalists will be up to the gunmen, in a vote OnlineIt takes place between Tuesday and Friday.
With 136 supporters declared, Rishi Sunak presents himself as the frontrunner to be the UK’s next Prime Minister. In the letter presenting his nomination, the Representative also said of Richmond: “I’ve served as your Treasury secretary, helping to guide our economy through the toughest times. The challenges we now face are greater. But so are the opportunities, if we make the right choice.”
“I am asking you for the opportunity to help solve our problems. To take our party and our country into the next general election, confident in our record, resolute in our convictions, and ready to lead again,” added Sunak.
At the moment, the only official opponent of Rishi Sunak in the race to lead conservative It’s Penny Mordaunt, who, at last count, had 23 ratifications. In an interview with the BBC, this Sunday, the still-conservative leader in the House of Commons said she “regretted” the disastrous mini-budget introduced by the Liz Truss government and said that if she was the next prime minister of the United States, she would keep Jeremy Hunt, who succeeded Kwasi Quarting. As Finance Minister.
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