By the beginning of September, the 160,000 members of the Conservative Party will have to decide between the two candidates for the post of Prime Minister.
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A man, the fifties, rather to the right of the party: this is the robot portrait of the 160,000 members of the British conservative party who must decide between the two candidates for the replacement of Boris Johnson: the ex-chancellor of the Echiquier Rishi Sunak and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Liz Truss. The party also has a minority of young activists, who intend to make their voices heard. Four of them – George Holt, one of the officials of the Young Conservative Network, Thomas Moss, Salvatore Pagdades and Hassan Ali, deliver their opinion on the two candidates. They speak economy, charisma, and barely Brexit.
Main observation, empirical but corroborating the polls, which place Liz Truss in favorite to become Prime Minister: three of the young activists lean for her. This is the case of Salvatore Pagdades, a 19 -year -old student, from Hertfordshire (northern London), who finds his “daring economic program. We need it to get out of the difficult situation in which we find ourselves”. The Minister offers massive tax cuts qualified as “fanciful” by Mr. Sunak, who pleads to tackle inflation in priority.
Salvatore has no problems with the political journey of his candidate – M Me truss began to campaign among the Liberal Democrats and she voted against Brexit in 2016. “Many Young people start on the left and vote on the right when I get older! I am a little more reserved on his opposition to Brexit in 2016, but since she has changed. “He appreciates that M truss has been the subject Less controversy than Rishi Sunak, whose Indian and very wealthy wife did not pay taxes in the United Kingdom until recently. “I will still wait until the last moment to vote,” slips the student, in case revelations on Liz Truss go out in the media.
she “will pass better”
Thomas Moss, a 21 -year law student, is also campaigning for Liz Truss. “I already wanted that she became Prime Minister when she was secretary to the treasury [between 2017 and 2019], I did not think that she would arrive so close to the goal!” He is seduced by her radical economic proposals: “We need People who do things differently. Rishi Sunak belongs to this class of politicians, who do not want to change much. However, the recipes to restart our economy did not work. And we forget that he too Received a fines of the police [like Boris Johnson, as part of the “partygate”] for having violated the rules of containment. “He sweeps one of the other criticisms made to M me truss, his lack of Charism: “She is not perfect but, when we look on YouTube the videos of Margaret Thatcher in the mid-1970s, she had a terrible voice.”
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