The Conservative Party has devised an express formula to elect its new leader. The nomination of the possible candidates was open this Thursday afternoon and will conclude next monday at 2 pm. Each application must be accompanied by at least a hundred nominations of so many other deputies, that reduces potentially to three, at most, the number of possible candidates selected on October 24. If there are two candidates left,will be submitted to a vote of the members, via onlineThe final decision“. “All the stages will be completed at the latest on October 28“said the president of the Conservative Party, Jake Berry, that together with the president of the 1922 Committee, Graham Brady, is in charge of directing the process. “If there is only one candidate, there will be no confirmation vote of the members,” she added. “We want to act quickly, and we will continue to do so because that is what the stability of the country requires”.
The requirement of 100 nominations sets the bar very high and prevents the waste of time with hopeless applicants. “A serious candidate, anyone who has a realistic chance of getting ahead, can catch up,” Brady explained. The nominees on Monday will defend their designation, laying out their Program in presentations that will be held behind closed doors. The National Cyber Security Center has contacted the organizers fearing possible attempts to interference or sabotage during the competition.
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Throughout the weekend and on Monday morning, the Names of those who aspire to succeed Truss. Many of them will be the same ones that were presented in July, when Boris Johnson was forced to resign. It is the case of Rishi Sunak, the former Finance Minister and billionaire of Indian origin whom Truss defeated and who had warned of the disaster that would suppose the economic strategy of its rival. After the defeat he has not made any statement, but his allies have begun to shake his profile again. The same happens with the group of faithful of Boris Johnson, who claimed that the former prime minister was returning from the Caribbean to try his luck a second time. There are doubts, however, that Johnson, very popular among the grassroots, can reach the 100 endorsements he would need among the deputies, where he arouses loves and phobias. Johnson leads the polls with 32% of the vote, followed by Sunak (23%), the defense minister, ben wallace (10%), and the leader of the House of Commons, Penny Mordaunt (10%).
Uncertainty
The British Chamber of Commerce has called for the election of the UK’s third prime minister so far this year to be held quickly. The resignation of Liz Truss “means that the UK now faces greater uncertaintyprecisely when it is at the top of a recession“. With the increase in energy prices, the inflation and the lack of labor hitting companies and the entire country “the challenges that lie ahead increase every day,” they warn.