British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has expressed this Wednesday that the government’s mission has been “accomplished” to a large extent, during his last speech before the deputies in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
Johnson, who has said he has advice for his successors, has urged “stay close to Americans and Ukrainians and continue to defend freedom,” according to reports in the newspaper. The Guardian.
Thus, he has expressed that “he loves the Treasury Department”, but has stressed that “if the Government had listened to its senior officials, we would never have built the M25”, the ring road that surrounds London, the country’s capital.
–
In this sense, he has asked “to ignore Twitter” and has emphasized that “he took the country out of a pandemic and helped protect another country from barbarism”, alluding to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Johnson has received an ovation after his speech, which is the last he has made before the deputies after announcing his resignation as ‘tory’ leader and, therefore, as prime minister.
“Bye, baby”, has said in relation to the famous phrase of the film Terminator 2.
United Kingdom: Former Finance Minister Establishes Himself as Favorite to Succeed Boris Johnson
Former British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak widened his lead in the race to succeed Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday, while Foreign Secretary Liz Truss closed the gap in her quest to get between the two finalists.
After Johnson’s dramatic resignation on July 7 as leader of the Conservative Party, which will make him leave the head of government as soon as the party finds a successor for him, last week began the long internal race to replace him.
Initially, the 358 conservative deputies vote in successive rounds of elimination until two finalist candidates are designated on July 21.
In a second time, the nearly 200,000 members of the Conservative Party will choose between these two by postal vote during the summer, to designate the winner on September 5.
In the third round of voting by Conservative MPs on Monday, Sunak won 115 votes, ahead of International Trade Secretary Penny Mordaunt with 82 and Truss with 71 (seven more than in the second round). Former Equality Minister Kemi Badenoch came in fourth with 58 votes and Foreign Affairs parliamentary committee chairman Tom Tugendhat was eliminated with 31 votes.
After winning the 2019 elections, Boris Johnson’s mandate has been dotted with constant scandals. – Foto: GETTY IMAGES–
After two television debates organized over the weekend between these five candidates, Sunak and Truss had decided not to participate in the third, scheduled for Tuesday night by the Sky News channel, which was forced to cancel it.
The prospect of a third debate made British Conservatives fear that too many disagreements among themselves would be exposed, the channel considered.
After appearing unconvincing in the first debate on Friday, Truss frontally attacked Sunak, a former colleague within the government whom he accused of having dragged the country into a “recession” by raising taxes and social charges.
Johnson votes confidence in his government
Sunak and Truss are throwing daggers at each other from the start of the campaign. The latter seeks to gain ground since in the first three votes it has been relegated to third place, behind Mordaunt and Sunak, who secured his way to the final on Monday.
The minister is the favorite of Johnson’s camp, which is convinced that Sunak waited for the right moment for months before announcing his resignation on July 4, which precipitated the cascade of resignations that eventually forced his prime minister to resign. This version has been denied by supporters of Sunak.
But according to the newspaper The TimesJohnson would be urging the eliminated candidates to give their support to “anyone except Rishi”, whom he accuses of treason for having precipitated the resignation of 60 other members of the government and ultimately the fall of the conservative leader.
*With information from Europa Press.
–
:quality(50)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/semana/XDMRJCJJBBGZDKFWO5XE7TWBX4.jpg "This is how Boris Johnson said goodbye in Parliament in London")
:quality(80)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/lanacionar/VUJAJKOCBBDATLTZ54A6L6PZSA.jpg "Lissa Vera, on her betrayal of Locho Loccisano in The Hotel of the Famous: “There is a version of him that was not seen”")
