Foreign Minister Liz Truss entered the race to replace Boris Johnson as the British Prime Minister, the latest Cabinet Minister who made him move in a broken contest.
Truss made taxes cutting the heart of his campaign, vowing to reverse the increase in salary tax introduced by former Chancellor Rishi Suna and promised to make company tax “competitive.”
Under my leadership, I will start cutting taxes from the first day to take immediate action to help people deal with living expenses,” he wrote in The Daily Telegraph on Sunday night.
He joined 10 other candidates who had begun to make their pitch including sister, his successor Nadhim Zahawi, and former Minister of Health Sajid Javid and Jeremy Hunt. Priti Patel’s house secretary also weighed.
Meanwhile, former Minister of Equality Kemi Badenoch was supported by former cabinet minister Michael Gove, who was fired by Johnson last week in one of his last actions before resigning. Winners will be announced in September.
The right schedule for the leadership contest is expected to be established on Monday, after the meeting of the 1922 Conservative Parliament Committee, which decided on the rules. This also tends to determine how many MP nominations must be carried out by each competitor, to narrow the crowded field.
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Conservatives want the contest to be as soon as possible, and want to reduce the second candidate before the parliament takes place at the summer recess on July 21. That means the next two weeks in Westminster tends to be heated: Both thorns are political and personal will fly, and the alliance will develop when candidates try to support the support of their fellow members of their parliament.
MPs will decide which candidates will make two finals, in a series of voting rounds that can be started soon on Wednesday. But members of the conservative party will choose the main winner, after the leadership finalists take a six -week tour in England during the summer.
More than 55
The party refuses to confirm the number of Tory members at this time, but is considered more than 160,000 sent by ballots in the last contest in 2019. Under the party rules, this elected group – more likely to be men, aged, aged more than 55 and live In Southern England – has a unique power to choose the next prime minister.
Johnson stopped as a conservative leader last Thursday after a dramatic mass rebellion from his ministers, following a series of scandals that have housed three years of his premiership. He vowed to remain as prime minister until his successor was announced, and has appointed the guard government he insisted he would not “make a big direction change.”
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The Keir Starmer opposition labor party will call the votes in disbelief in the Johnson government this week if, as expected, the 1922 Committee failed to reject Johnson as Prime Minister. Such voting, which was held at the House of Commons, could cause Johnson to be forced out and the temporary prime minister was appointed, or even the initial general election.
But that will require significant support among conservatives, many of them tend to choose to keep Johnson as a temporary leader to avoid giving Starmer victory.
Tax deduction battle
The leadership contest has become a battle for cash for households, with limited interest in fiscal restraints. Javid and Hunt make tax deductions a priority when they talk to BBC TV on Sundays.
Both men promised to cancel the planned company tax increase and reduce it to 15% of the 25%. Javid went further, promising to reverse the increase in national insurance that entered during April, as Truss did.
It happened when the British struggled with a surge in living costs, amid an increase in energy bills and railroad tariffs, and the prospect of extensive attacks from public sector workers demanding higher wages.
Sung tried to paint himself as a candidate who was responsible for his opening pitch on Twitter, referring to economic management during Pandemic and refused to submit to “fairy tales” about how to solve state problems.
But he can have problems that win over parliamentary members who are not impressed with his record of tax increases, after encouraging state tax burdens to the highest level since World War II – A step that sits uncomfortable with Tory’s ideology
Meanwhile, the Chancellor currently Zahawi replied to the accusation of his tax affairs, after independent and the Sunday Times reported his finances were being investigated by HM and Customs Revenues after the initial investigation by the National Crime Agency. In a statement that was removed, Zahawi said the claim was “inaccurate, unfair and clearly smeared.”
Other leadership competitors including Minister of Trade Penny Mordaunt, Grant Shapps Transportation Secretary, Attorney General Suella Braverman, Tom Tugendhat, Chair of the Center for the Commons Foreign Choice Committee, and – in the shocking addition of Sunday night – Backbencher Rehman Chishti.