Due to the resignation of Truss, the British Conservative Party will vote for a new party leader and become prime minister before October 28. The current election is not yet clear.
According to the regulations, each Conservative Party new party leader candidate needs at least 100 Conservative MP nominations to participate in the party election. According to a report by British Sky News on October 22, sources in the campaign team of former British Chancellor of the Exchequer Sunak said that Sunak has won the support of 100 Conservative MPs.
Picture right: Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson . Left: Former British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak Vision China Among the candidates, only Mordaunt officially announced his candidacy on the 21st, and Wallace, the defense secretary with a higher voice, had already announced that he would not run for the election. According to the regulations, candidates must win the support of 100 Conservative MPs before 14:00 local time on the 24th. According to statistics from Sky News on the 21st, at least 93 MPs will support Sunak, 47 MPs will support Boris, and only 19 support Mordaunt.
Currently, Mordaunt and Sunak are both in London preparing for the campaign. It is worth noting that Boris has been on holiday with his family in the Caribbean island of Dominica for the past two weeks due to the sudden resignation of Truss. Boris is currently on a flight back to London, with reports that as a former leader, he and his family chose to fly in economy class. Conservative MP James Duddridge confirmed to Sky News on the evening of the 21st that he had contacted Johnson , and Boris personally told him that "he is ready".
Sky News reported that Boris had just resigned eight weeks ago due to scandals and party defections. Former Conservative Party leader William Hague said in an interview with the media on the 21st that if a former Prime Minister who had just stepped down was elected to return to the Conservative Party, then the party would fall into a terrible 'death spiral', too. The worst news I've heard in the years I've been in politics."
Previously, Li Guanjie, a think tank researcher at the British Studies Center of the Shanghai Institute of Global Governance and Regional and Country Studies, Shanghai International Studies University, was interviewed by The Paper (www.thepaper.cn). When talking about Boris's situation, he said, "If he is a shrewd person, he may not run for election now, because wait until the early general election to elect the party leader internally, then his chances of winning will be Higher and more stable."
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