The Minister of Foreign Affairs faced the former Chancellor of the Echiquier, Rishi Sunak on Monday on the BBC. Their exchanges focused on the question of purchasing power.
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Rishi Sunak was slightly aggressive, the ray impeccable and the costume of very good cut. Liz Truss, less rigid and more confident than usually, wore a royal blue dress in the colors of their conservative party. The former L’Échiquier Chancellor and the British Minister of Foreign Affairs clashed for an hour on Monday, July 25, on the BBC, during the first debate organized between the two candidates for the replacement of Boris Johnson at 10 Downing Street.
The exchanges were lively, centered as since the start of the campaign, in mid-July, on the crisis of purchasing power, Mr. Sunak persistent to defend the need to fight in priority against inflation (now more 9 % in the United Kingdom), Liz Truss insisting on her “daring” agenda, with massive tax cuts “from the first day”. The deplorable situation of the national health system or Brexit was barely mentioned.
Rishi Sunak lagging behind the surveys
The two policies were struggling in a Stoke-on-Tret performance hall, a city of midlands known for having voted massively in favor of Brexit during the 2016 referendum, facing an audience of a few dozen inhabitants Having voted to conservative in the 2019 general elections. In reality, they were addressed directly to the 160,000 party members to whom he will return, from August 1 and until September 2, to vote to decide between them. The name of the new British Prime Minister will be announced on September 5.
Rishi Sunak, 42, had little to lose. Cataloged in spite of himself as a moderate, accused of “treachery” by the relatives of Mr. Johnson (his resignation, on July 5, precipitated the fall of the Prime Minister), the ex-chence of the chessboard is lagging behind in polls. According to a Yougov survey published on July 21, 62 % of the members of the party interviewed preferred Liz Truss, against 38 % saying that they were ready to choose Mr. Sunak. Despite his oral ease, this son of Indian immigrants who made a fortune in finance failed to overthrow the steam on Monday evening. According to a survey carried out by Opinium after the debate, 39 % of those questioned (conservative voters or not) found Liz Truss the most convincing, 38 % preferred his colleague.
On the form, M Me truss, 47, avoided the missteps and delivered a less robotic performance than usual. She appeared calmer than her interlocutor, who kept interrupting him. Mr. Johnson’s Minister of Foreign Affairs certainly made a difficult entry in the countryside – she narrowly rose into the head duo – but her positioning to the party’s right begins to pay.
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