Events are taking shape across the Channel. Rishi Sunak, Britain’s former finance minister, has passed the 100-backer threshold required to run for leader of the Conservative Party following the resignation of Prime Minister Liz Truss, a party official said on Friday.
“Proud to be the 100th Tory MP to support #Ready4Rishi,” tweeted Tobias Ellwood, one of his supporters.
logical favorite?
Before Boris Johnson’s return to the game, it seemed the time for Rishi Sunak’s revenge had come. The one-year former minister came second to Liz Truss, even ahead of her in the MPs, and spent his campaign warning of the dire consequences of the “fairy tale” he called his rival government’s economic program.
History has proved him right and, given the economic storm of recent weeks, this former banker, attached to budgetary orthodoxy, appears as a reassuring figure for public opinion and the markets.
This Star Wars fan, a deputy since 2015, was appointed to the prestigious position of Minister of Finance just before the Covid-19 pandemic and his management of the crisis, with massive aid to households and companies, has been the center of attention. .
He has against him, in the midst of the cost of living crisis, his image as a wealthy banker who has passed through elite colleges and universities and then Goldman Sachs. Above all, part of his political formation does not forgive him for his resignation from the Government at the beginning of July and equates it to a betrayal that precipitated the fall of Boris Johnson.
Elected, this grandson of Indian immigrants would become the first non-white head of government in the UK.
Source: BFM TV
