The Minister of Foreign Affairs and the former Chancellor of the chessboard will be decreed by a vote of the members of the Conservative Party.
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After five voting laps in fifteen days, an unusual internal campaign by its ferocity and its suspense, it is ultimately Liz Truss, the current Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Rishi Sunak, the former L’Échiquier , who were appointed by Tories deputies on Wednesday, July 20, to enter the “Final Two” – the duo of the finalists candidates for the replacement of the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. He will now return to the 160,000 members of the Conservative Party to decide between them. They have all August to vote: the name of the new or the new Downing Street tenant will be unveiled on September 5.
At 42, Rishi Sunak based his campaign on his competence and his honesty – an obvious way to stand out from Boris Johnson whose fall he rushed by resigning on July 5. Above the lot for his mastery of details and his eloquence, this son of Indian immigrants native of Southampton (south of England) went through a private school for boys (Winchester College) then the University of Oxford as most of the British elite. This well -cut costume lover made a fortune in finance – he was a hedge manager before starting a lightning political career: he is deputy for Yorkshire (north -west of England) only since 2015.
At the start of the year, when scandals multiplied around Boris Johnson, Mr. Sunak passed for the most obvious of his replacements. He had held up the public finance bar during the COVVI -19 pandemic, did not hide his ambition and had hardly “puffed”, with the exception of an awkward admission – “I am a total coke addict” (“I am addicted to coke”), he had entrusted to two high school students in 2021 before correctly correcting the shooting: he was “addicted” only in Coca-Cola, of course.
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But, if it happened to vote of elected officials Tories on Wednesday (with 137 votes out of 357), the high star of Rishi Sunak has pale since spring, when the media revealed that he had a card Green (a long stay long in the United States) until 2021 and his wife (the daughter of the wealthy founder of the SSI Infosys) did not pay taxes in the United Kingdom. In recent days, the faithful of Camp Johnson have continued to pass it for a moderate – almost an insult in a party which has continued to derive on the right from the referendum on Brexit. Mr. Sunak voted for the release of the European Union in 2016 and he refuses to challenge Mr. Johnson’s most controversial heritage: his policy of deportation of asylum seekers in Rwanda and his attempt to rewrite the protocol North Irish.
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