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Post by Admin on Jul 19, 2022 19:47:12 GMT
Kemi Badenoch out |Conservative leadership race 3,846 views Jul 20, 2022 The temperature is rising in the Conservative leadership contest.
This afternoon, the former Communities Minister Kemi Badenoch became the latest candidate to be ejected from the race by Conservative MPs.
That leaves Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss and Penny Mordaunt battling to be in the final two who go forward to the run-off with Tory party members.
Only 32 votes separate leader in the race, Rishi Sunak, from Liz Truss in third place, so Westminster is alive with feverish speculation on how the votes will fall in the final round among MPs tomorrow.
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Post by Admin on Jul 20, 2022 16:40:37 GMT
LONDON — Liz Truss will face Rishi Sunak in the final round of a closely fought race to succeed Boris Johnson as U.K. prime minister. Penny Mordaunt crashed out of the race Wednesday after receiving the least support in a fifth round of voting among Conservative members of Parliament. Penny Mordaunt, who surprised many early in the Tory leadership race, fell at the final hurdle and failed to secure enough backers to make her pitch to the Conservative Party membership this summer. Ahead of this afternoon's ballot, which saw Mr Sunak receive 137 votes and Ms Truss 113, there were widespread allegations of "dirty tricks", with claims the former chancellor’s supporters had been encouraged to vote tactically to ensure a run-off with Ms Truss rather than Ms Mordaunt. Former Cabinet minister David Davis, who backed Ms Mordaunt, said “he wanted to fight Liz, because she’s the person who will lose the debate with him”, adding that it was the “dirtiest campaign I’ve ever seen”. Ms Truss, who is being backed by Boris Johnson’s most loyal allies, insisted that she was the “only person who can deliver the change” the UK needs which is in “line with true Conservative principles”. While Mr Sunak pledged to unite and "bring people together to serve the British people to the best of our ability”. But he refused to say whether his Cabinet would include Ms Truss and Ms Mordaunt. “I’ve been particularly careful as I assume the others have been as well, not to get into the business of starting to talk about specific jobs and specific people,” he said. On tax, the issue that has dominated the race to replace Mr Johnson, Ms Truss, whose tax-cutting promises have been criticised by former Cabinet minister David Davis as having “gone a bit far”, insisted they were “affordable”.
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Post by Admin on Jul 21, 2022 6:33:55 GMT
Penny Mordaunt had come second in every round of voting - except the one that really mattered.
She was overtaken in today's fourth round by Liz Truss, so Tory members will now decide between the foreign secretary and former chancellor Rishi Sunak.
Rishi Sunak was backed by 137 MPs in today's vote. Liz Truss got 113. And Penny Mordaunt received 105.
That means if Liz Truss becomes Tory leader, she will do so with the backing of a smaller percentage of the party's MPs than Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron and even Iain Duncan Smith.
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Post by Admin on Jul 21, 2022 19:41:50 GMT
From the start of the Conservative leadership campaign, Rishi Sunak has sought to downplay his vast wealth and privilege to tell a story of middle class aspiration, seeking to demonstrate he understands the financial challenge faced by ordinary citizens.
But tonight an investigation for this programme has uncovered new details about Mr Sunak's education, property and financial dealings - and raises new questions about whether his hedge fund paid him with assets in offshore tax havens.
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Post by Admin on Jul 25, 2022 13:57:05 GMT
Tory leadership race: Starmer hits out at ‘Thatcherite cosplay’ ahead of candidate debate 3,511 views Jul 25, 2022 Sir Keir Starmer will on Monday hit out at the “Thatcherite cosplay” of the Tory leadership contest and vow to dump Labour’s historic obsession with high taxes and public spending.
The Labour leader is set to criticise the “magic money tree economics” of Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak and will pledge to pursue a relentless focus on growth if he wins the next election.
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