Truss, 47, faces former finance minister for the job Rishi Sunaka 42-year-old former banker billionaire grandson of Indian immigrants and who, with his initial resignation, caused the wave of resignations that ended up bringing down Johnson’s executive.
The two candidates, chosen in July by the conservative deputies from among eight candidates, made an effort in August to seduce the nearly 200,000 members of the party, who have the last word with a mail and online voting which closes on Friday at 5:00 p.m. local time (1:00 p.m. Argentine time).
The winner will be announced on Monday. And on Tuesday he will travel to scottish balmoral castlesummer residence of the Queen isabel IIfor his first meeting with the Head of State who, at 96 years old and with increasing mobility problems, will not travel until London for the occasion, for the first time since he came to the throne 70 years ago.
Before that, the monarch will also receive Boris Johnson at Balmoral, 830 km north of London, who will present his formal resignation as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after being forced to resign in July as leader of the Conservative Party under the unsustainable pressure of a multiplication of scandals that weighed down the popularity of the formation.
Overwhelming advantage for the chancellor
Liz Truss is more than 30 points ahead in the polls but, while clearly the favourite, her actual lead may be smaller. In the opinion of John Curtice, a political scientist at the University of Strathclyde, her success with the party’s bases is due to her greater ease in transmitting the traditional conservative messages.
“Sunak has shown some of the qualities that you would expect in a good minister. But Truss has shown the qualities that are needed in a politician,” Curtice told AFP.
The winner will immediately take the reins of government to deal with the economic crisis that the United Kingdom lives, threatened with an autumn of protests and strikes in a context of inflation uncontrolled that already reaches 10% and is heading to exceed 13% at the end of the year.
If elected, Liz Truss vowed Wednesday to “focus on energy prices for consumers and how to get the UK economy back on track.
Throughout the campaign he promised lower taxes to boost growth, but has yet to say how it will help Britons cope with rising energy bills this winter, when the tariff cap rises by 80% from October leaving millions in energy poverty.
Thus, whoever wins the consultation may have difficulty uniting the Conservatives before the next general election in the United Kingdom, scheduled for no later than January 2025, but which could be brought forward.
In a context of deterioration of the economy and of the living conditions of the British, the polls give the opposition Labor Party more than 10 points ahead of a Conservative Party that has been in power for 12 years.
Source: Ambito
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