Five days after the Conservative Prime Minister was pushed to resign by his own camp, already eleven candidates flock to take his place. Their proposals are almost exclusively around tax cuts.
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The replacement race of Boris Johnson at Downing Street promises to be congested, paved with unrealistic promises and all -oriented on the right. Monday, July 11, five days after the charismatic leader, but gaffeur and cynique, was pushed to resign by his own camp, already eleven candidates were crowded to take his place at the head of the British executive. The name of the lucky man or the happy elected representative will be known on September 5, after an internal primary open to conservative deputies.
Among the contenders, known names, ministers preparing their candidacy for weeks such as Rishi Sunak, the former Chancellor of the Echiquier, and Sajid Javid, the former Minister of Health, whose resignations, the July 5, precipitated the fall of Mr. Johnson. Or Liz Truss, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Jeremy Hunt, a former Minister of Health, who had already tried his luck during the internal campaign to replace Theresa May in mid-2019. Others align with no chance of winning (Suella Braverman, Rehman Chishti), probably to push a specific agenda or secure a place in the future government. And Monday evening, the Minister of the Interior, Priti Patel, also thought of also embarking on the battle.
worried that this plethora of pretenders does not slow down the process of appointing the future Prime Minister, the members of the 1922 committee, an internal club to the conservatives responsible for fixing the rules of the party, arrested a tight calendar and draconian conditions for the Maintaining in the race.
can only line up candidates who have obtained support from at least twenty conservative deputies by Tuesday evening. At the end of three or four eliminatory votes with the college of 360 deputies Tories – the first round will take place on July 13 – will have to remain only two names on July 20, for the summer closure of the Parliament. These last two candidates will then be decreed by the approximately 180,000 members of the Conservative Party and the identity of the future Prime Minister, known on September 5.
Rarely an internal primary of the Tories will have presented such diversity: at least four women want to try their luck. And six of the eleven candidates on Monday are children of immigrants. The parents of Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman are of Indian origin, those of Sajid Javid and Rehman Chishti of Pakistani origin; Nadhim Zahawi arrived as a child in the United Kingdom, fleeing Iraq with his family of Kurdish origin, Kemi Badenoch is of Nigerian origin.
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