Liz Truss

Boris Johnson will be succeeded as prime minister of the United Kingdom by either Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss after the Conservative Party leadership race was ...

Opposition leaders would be quick to remind Sunak that he was fined at the same Partygate event as Johnson. And as soon as the new leader takes over, the opposition Labour Party will be only too willing to remind whoever succeeds Johnson that they were part of that government. Sunak has been considered the frontrunner for a long time. The best known scandal was "Partygate" in which Johnson and several political allies -- including Sunak -- were fined by police for breaching the government's own Covid-19 restrictions. And frankly, that's enough to be going on with. I'm ready to hit the ground running from day one."

Le duel dans la course au pouvoir du Parti conservateur britannique pour la succession de Boris Johnson opposera Rishi Sunak, l'ancien ministre des finances ...

Les candidats ont également largement débattu de la façon dont ils comptaient s’attaquer à la crise du coût de la vie qui étrangle les ménages britanniques, alors que l’inflation a encore augmenté en juin, atteignant 9,4 % sur un an. Rishi Sunak, 42 ans, dont le départ du gouvernement début juillet a contribué à précipiter la chute de Boris Johnson, était en tête depuis le premier vote. L’ex-ministre des finances était resté en tête mardi à l’issue d’un quatrième vote des députés conservateurs, devant la secrétaire d’Etat au commerce international, Penny Mordaunt, suivie de près par la cheffe de la diplomatie.

Le charismatique ex-ministre des Finances, favori des députés conservateurs, et la ministre des Affaires étrangères admiratrice de Thatcher doivent ...

Sa cote de popularité est telle que dès décembre 2021, en plein partygate, son nom circulait déjà pour prendre la place de Boris Johnson. Le grand public le connaît depuis sa nomination au ministère des Finances en février 2020, au tout début de la pandémie. Ce poste l’a propulsé sur le devant de la scène et «Rishi» a incarné à la télévision une figure rassurante, prête à dépenser sans compter – certes, plus pour les entreprises que pour les ménages. Une politique assumée qui tranche néanmoins avec les valeurs conservatrices. Portraits des protagonistes qui seront départagés par un vote postal des quelque 200 000 membres du Parti conservateur.

LONDON — Britain's Conservative Party chose former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss — a fiscal moderate and a low-tax crusader ...

The campaign has already exposed deep divisions in the Conservative Party at the end of Johnson's scandal-tarnished three-year reign. Johnson did not attend any government emergency meetings about the heat wave that brought record temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) to Britain this week. He finally quit after one scandal too many — appointing a politician accused of sexual misconduct — drove his ministers to resign en masse. Johnson allies have been accused of lobbying against Sunak, whose resignation helped bring the prime minister down, and in favor of Truss, who remained loyal. The winner of the party leadership vote will be announced Sept. 5 and will automatically become Britain's next prime minister. The evidence shows that's Rishi."

Le nom du nouveau chef du parti conservateur, élu par ses 200.000 membres, est attendu le 5 septembre. Il succédera à Boris Johnson et deviendra premier ...

À la veille de sa chute, les tories n'étaient qu'à 33 % dans les sondages, à sept points du Labour. L'opposition peine pourtant à creuser plus l'écart, le Parti travailliste étant lui-même en proie à des divisions internes. Baissez les impôts et dérégulez là où vous le pouvez pour faire de ce pays le meilleur endroit pour vivre et investir. Ce dernier se veut plus réaliste, dénonçant les « contes de fées » ou le « socialisme » de ses concurrents, et affirmant vouloir réduire la pression fiscale une fois l'inflation réduite, sous peine d'aggraver les problèmes. Sur le Brexit, par simple réalisme économique, Sunak pourrait montrer plus de souplesse avec l'UE que Truss. La campagne risque d'être féroce, avec une bataille serrée et un Sunak qui sera la cible du camp Johnson, ce dernier le voyant comme le « traître » qui a provoqué sa chute. La question des réductions d'impôts, qui a dominé les phases éliminatoires, devrait encore être au cœur du duel Sunak-Truss. Soucieuse d'incarner l'essence du conservatisme, Liz Truss promet des baisses majeures « dès le premier jour », et entend revenir sur une hausse récente des cotisations sociales. Liz Truss, jugée peu convaincante la semaine dernière, a pu récupérer assez de voix de cette dernière. Alors que la droite du parti menait jusqu'ici la danse, le fait que Penny Mordaunt - considérée comme centriste malgré son étiquette de Brexiteuse - soit arrivée aussi loin dans la compétition atteste de ses difficultés. Avec 105 voix, la secrétaire d'État au Commerce extérieur, Penny Mordaunt, a donc été éliminée de la compétition. Les deux finalistes seront départagés à l'issue d'un vote où se prononceront, cette fois-ci, les quelque 160.000 adhérents du parti.

Britain's Conservative Party chose its two finalists on Wednesday in the contest to replace Boris Johnson as British prime minister: Foreign Secretary Liz ...

But critics said his campaign to get people to eat in restaurants after lockdown restrictions were eased in the summer of 2020 contributed to another wave of COVID-19. Johnson did not attend any government emergency meetings about the heat wave that brought temperatures of 40 C to Britain this week. His wife, Akshata Murty, is the daughter of the billionaire founder of Indian tech giant Infosys, and the couple is worth 730 million pounds ($1.13B Cdn), according to the Sunday Times Rich list. The bitter campaign has exposed deep divisions in the Conservative Party at the end of Johnson's scandal-tarnished three-year reign. At 42, Sunak would be the youngest prime minister for more than 200 years and the country's first South Asian leader. The winner of the party leadership vote will be announced Sept. 5 and will automatically become prime minister.

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is one of two finalists in the race to replace Boris Johnson as Britain's prime minister.

But EU leaders and officials hoping she would bring a softer tone to the U.K.’s relations with the bloc have been disappointed. In Britain’s 2016 referendum on whether to leave the European Union, Truss backed the losing “remain” side. As foreign secretary, Truss has been front and center in Britain’s support for Ukraine and Western sanctions against Russia over the invasion of its neighbor. Many praise her firm response to the invasion of Ukraine, and she secured the release of two British nationals jailed in Iran where her predecessors had failed. She ran unsuccessfully for Parliament twice before being elected to represent the eastern England seat of Southwest Norfolk in 2010. Britain’s foreign secretary is one of the two final contenders to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader and prime minister.

Dans sept semaines, l'un d'eux deviendra premier ministre britannique : l'ex-ministre des Finances Rishi Sunak et la ministre des Affaires étrangères Liz ...

Un débat entre les deux finalistes se tiendra dès lundi prochain sur la BBC, a annoncé le groupe audiovisuel public. Baissez les impôts et dérégulez où vous pouvez pour faire de ce pays le meilleur endroit pour vivre et investir. Tirant sa révérence au cours d’une dernière séance de questions au Parlement en tant que premier ministre, Boris Johnson s’est fendu d’un « hasta la vista, baby » et de conseils à destination de celui ou celle qui lui succédera : « Restez proche des Américains, soutenez les Ukrainiens, battez-vous pour la liberté et la démocratie partout.

State of play: Sunak (137 votes) finished first in the final vote among Conservative members of Parliament, while Truss (113 votes) leapfrogged trade minister ...

State of play: Trade minister Penny Mordaunt (92 votes) and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss (86 votes) also survived. - Sunak's resignation as chancellor helped start the exodus that ultimately forced Johnson out. The last round of voting on Wednesday will trim the field down to the final two, before the party's roughly 200,000-strong membership selects the next Conservative leader and thus the U.K.'s next prime minister. Conservative members of Parliament held their penultimate vote on the party's next leader on Tuesday, with former finance minister Rishi Sunak (118 votes) finishing first and right-winger Kemi Badenoch (59 votes) eliminated. State of play: Sunak (137 votes) finished first in the final vote among Conservative members of Parliament, while Truss (113 votes) leapfrogged trade minister Penny Mordaunt (105 votes) to reach the runoff round. The race to replace Boris Johnson as U.K. prime minister and Conservative Party leader is down to two: former finance minister Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.

Après la démission de Boris Johnson, les députés conservateurs ont désigné, mercredi, au terme de plusieurs jours de débats, leurs deux candidats pour lui ...

Un débat entre les deux finalistes se tiendra dès lundi prochain sur la BBC, a annoncé le groupe audiovisuel public. Baissez les impôts et dérégulez où vous pouvez pour faire de ce pays le meilleur endroit pour vivre et investir." Les candidats ont également largement débattu de la façon dont ils comptaient s'attaquer à la crise du coût de la vie qui étrangle les ménages britanniques, alors que l'inflation a encore accéléré en juin, à 9,4 % sur un an.

Penny Mordaunt out of the race for Tory leader as Sunak wins backing of 137 MPs and Truss bags 113 votes.

Mel Stride, the Sunak campaign’s chief whip, sent a WhatsApp message around to supportive MPs on Wednesday afternoon urging them to weigh in behind him and not lend their votes elsewhere to try and influence who he would go up against. We must all now work together to unify our party and focus on the job that needs to be done.” One former Badenoch supporter said that, ahead of the final ballot, he was approached by 13 different supporters of Truss trying to get him on board. Johnson will step aside September 6. Trailing Truss by just eight votes in a knife-edge joust for second place was Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt, whose campaign enjoyed an early surge only to falter in the final stages. The evidence shows that’s Rishi.”

Penny Mordaunt knocked out in final day of voting by MPs as party members now prepare to pick PM.

He topped the MPs’ vote in every round, and always seemed likely to progress. Jonathan Gullis, one of the MPs elected in 2019, endorsed Truss on Tuesday morning. The foreign secretary’s campaign began slowly, hampered by a somewhat wooden style and mixed performances in TV debates, where Sunak more than once castigated her proposed programme of tax cuts and untested monetary interventions. The former health secretary Jeremy Hunt and Nadhim Zahawi, who succeeded Sunak as chancellor, were eliminated in the first round. In a statement, Mordaunt congratulated the others but called on them to end the fighting: “Politics isn’t easy. Truss, the foreign secretary, who had trailed Mordaunt throughout the previous rounds, took 113 votes, ahead of Mordaunt’s 105.

Former finance minister Rishi Sunak and foreign secretary Liz Truss will battle to replace Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Truss might also struggle at the hustings against Sunak, who is more relaxed in public appearances. Whoever triumphs when the result is announced on September 5 will inherit some of the most difficult economic conditions in Britain in decades. Sunak and Truss now take their case to Conservative party members, who will decide the new leader and prime minister after a series of nationwide hustings in August. Sunak has led in all rounds of the voting among Conservative legislators but it is Truss who seems to have gained the advantage so far among the 200,000 members of the governing party who will ultimately choose the winner. Former finance minister Rishi Sunak and foreign secretary Liz Truss will battle it out to become Britain’s next prime minister after they won the final vote among Conservative Party MPs, setting up the last stage of the contest to replace former leader Boris Johnson. I will work night and day to deliver our message around the country,” Sunak posted on Twitter on Wednesday.

LONDON — The next prime minister of Britain and leader of the Conservative Party is now guaranteed to be an ethnic minority or a woman, after Tory lawmakers ...

Was it glib? Was it fitting? Meanwhile, Johnson will be bidding a long goodbye. On Wednesday, he said farewell to the House of Commons — and to his fellow lawmakers who gave him the boot — in a rowdy appearance marking the near-end of his premiership and this weird, shape-shifting Age of Boris. Sunak is a former Goldman Sachs heavy, a former hedge fund manager. He married really rich.

If it's not the pictures of her standing atop a tank in a nod to Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher, it's the meme-defining moment when she vented her ...

Others believe she can steady the ship after Johnson's turbulent three years in power. Her robust stance on Russia, China and with Brussels over Brexit will also feature in the campaign. She criticised the monarchy when a member of the more centrist Liberal Democrats at the University of Oxford, and described her conversion to conservatism as a "rebellion" spurred by a belief that people "should succeed on merit". "Now is the time for boldness, not a business-as-usual approach," she said on Tuesday in a pointed reference to Sunak who has said he would not reduce taxes immediately. Born to parents she describes as "left-wing", her mother, a nurse and a teacher, and her father, a maths lecturer, took her on demonstrations against then Conservative prime minister Thatcher, now her political idol. For many, she was a figure of fun, but for those in the governing Conservative Party choosing who should replace Boris Johnson, it is her conversion to passionate Brexit supporter and her offer of tax cuts that have propelled her to within touching distance of becoming Britain's next prime minister.

Les parlementaires britanniques ont désigné Rishi Sunak et Liz Truss pour s'affronter dans la dernière ligne droite de la course à la succession de Boris ...

Baissez les impôts et dérégulez où vous pouvez pour faire de ce pays le meilleur endroit pour vivre et investir. Les parlementaires britanniques ont désigné Rishi Sunak et Liz Truss pour s'affronter dans la dernière ligne droite de la course à la succession de Boris Johnson. Les jeux restent ouverts. Il s'est construit une réputation de compétence durant les années de turbulences où il a géré les finances du pays. Reste que celui-ci s'en est mieux sorti jusqu'ici dans les débats, alors que les deux candidats s'apprêtent à sillonner l'Angleterre pour aller à la rencontre des militants. Désormais s'ouvre une deuxième étape de la campagne, où les candidats devront emporter l'adhésion des quelque 160.000 adhérents du parti conservateur. Après un début poussif dans cette campagne, la ministre des Affaires étrangères a finalement remonté la pente.

La ministre des affaires étrangères et l'ancien chancelier de l'Echiquier vont être départagés par un vote des membres du Parti conservateur.

A 42 ans, Rishi Sunak a basé sa campagne sur sa compétence et son honnêteté – une manière évidente de se démarquer de Boris Johnson dont il a précipité la chute en démissionnant le 5 juillet. Mais, s’il est arrivé favori du vote des élus tory mercredi (avec 137 voix sur 357), la bonne étoile de Rishi Sunak a pâli depuis le printemps, quand les médias ont révélé qu’il disposait d’une carte verte (un droit de séjour long aux Etats-Unis) jusqu’en 2021 et que sa femme (la fille du richissime fondateur de la SSII Infosys) ne payait pas d’impôts au Royaume-Uni. Ces derniers jours, les fidèles du camp Johnson n’ont cessé de le faire passer pour un modéré – presque une injure dans un parti qui n’a cessé de dériver à droite depuis le référendum sur le Brexit. M. Sunak a pourtant voté pour la sortie de l’Union européenne en 2016 et refuse de contester l’héritage le plus controversé de M. Johnson : sa politique de déportation des demandeurs d’asile au Rwanda et sa tentative de réécriture du protocole nord-irlandais. En début d’année, quand les scandales se sont multipliés autour de Boris Johnson, M. Sunak passait pour le plus évident de ses remplaçants. Il avait tenu ferme la barre des finances publiques pendant la pandémie de Covid-19, ne cachait pas son ambition et n’avait pratiquement pas « gaffé », à l’exception d’un aveu maladroit – « I am a total coke addict » (« je suis complètement accro à la coke »), avait-il confié à deux lycéens en 2021 avant de corriger très vite le tir : il n’était « accro » qu’au Coca-Cola, bien sûr.

(Bloomberg) -- Two candidates remain in the battle to succeed Boris Johnson as leader of the UK Conservative Party and Prime Minister, as betting companies ...

Liz Truss, a darling of the party grassroots who has drawn comparisons with Margaret Thatcher, is the favorite to succeed Johnson according to Sky Bet, which will pay out 8/15 on her to be the next Tory leader. Nonetheless, they give clues as to the direction of travel during a rapidly changing contest. Tory MPs held their final ballot on Wednesday in the race to elect a new premier, with Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt knocked out after receiving the fewest votes.

Britain's Conservative Party has chosen Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss as the two finalists in an election to replace Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

The campaign has already exposed deep divisions in the Conservative Party at the end of Johnson’s scandal-tarnished three-year reign. Johnson did not attend any government emergency meetings about the heat wave that brought record temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) to Britain this week. Johnson allies have been accused of lobbying against Sunak, whose resignation helped bring the prime minister down, and in favor of Truss, who remained loyal. He finally quit after one scandal too many — appointing a politician accused of sexual misconduct — drove his ministers to resign en masse. The winner of the party leadership vote will be announced Sept. 5 and will automatically become Britain’s next prime minister. Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt came in third and was eliminated.

[VIDÉO] ▶️ Le 5 septembre prochain, le nouveau Premier ministre du Royaume-Uni sera annoncé. Il ne reste que deux candidats en lice pour ce poste à haute ...

Diplômée de la prestigieuse université d'Oxford, elle est la fille d'un père professeur universitaire de mathématiques et d'une mère militante pour le désarmement nucléaire. Petite, elle l'accompagne à des manifestations. Amateur de cricket et de football, fan de Star Wars, ce propriétaire d'un manoir géorgien dans un village du Yorkshire est considéré comme étant l'un des députés britanniques les plus riches. Né le 12 mai 1980 à Southampton, sur la côte sud de l'Angleterre, Rishi Sunak est l'aîné de trois enfants et le fils d'un médecin généraliste du système de santé public et d'une pharmacienne. Elle s'est notamment illustrée par son attitude d'abord conciliante puis intransigeante face à l'Union européenne dans les délicates négociations sur les dispositions post-Brexit concernant la province britannique d'Irlande du Nord. Avant d'entrer en politique, il a travaillé dans la finance, en particulier chez Goldman Sachs, et fondé sa propre société d'investissement. Après cette expérience dans le privé, l'homme alors âgé de 34 ans s'est lancé en politique : d'abord en tant que secrétaire en chef du Trésor puis en charge des collectivités locales. Éternel sourire aux lèvres et air de premier de la classe, cet homme de 42 ans a été propulsé, au début de la pandémie de Covid-19, aux fonctions de grand argentier.

The UK foreign secretary is now the hot favorite to succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister.

"It was another example of the focus on messaging over substance." "I honestly think it's already over," one supportive MP said Wednesday. "She's no good at the hustings — we saw that last week — but it doesn't matter a jot. More colleagues rushed to Truss this week, he added, as it became clear she had a real shot at the top job. Both his Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries and Brexit Opportunities Minister Jacob Rees-Mogg rowed in behind her campaign and were unafraid to get personal with her rivals. A YouGov poll of Tory members this week suggested that in a run-off between Truss and Sunak, it would be the foreign secretary who comes out on top. “We think that debate crystallized in people’s minds that she was someone who could really take it to Rishi," an aide said. She was then widely judged to have performed disastrously in the first of two televised leadership debates, and has continued to poll poorly among the general public over which candidate would make the best prime minister. “It's all about who has the most friends," one supportive MP explained. Truss has pledged to cancel his planned 6p rise in corporation tax, and abolish a £12 billion increase in national insurance contributions. Similarly, Truss appears to have picked up crucial votes at the 11th hour from her right-wing rival Kemi Badenoch, who was eliminated Tuesday night. Truss had been slow to launch, stuck abroad in Indonesia on ministerial duty when the Johnson regime imploded earlier this month. She now finds herself the hot favorite to win the race for No. 10 Downing Street.

Liz Truss has undergone a political reinvention to become the favorite to succeed Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative party and UK Prime Minister.

The two candidates in the Conservative leadership race are setting out their pitches to the party members who will choose Boris Johnson's successor. · Rishi ...

Writing in the Daily Mail, Ms Truss said "the central issue at the next election is going to be the economy" and "we have been going in the wrong direction on tax". In the Daily Telegraph, Mr Sunak wrote that he believed in "hard work, family and integrity", adding: "I am running as a Thatcherite, and I will govern as a Thatcherite." Mr Sunak has previously said the tax burden needed to be reduced but not immediately, saying it was a matter of "when not if". She also pledged to bring in an emergency budget to get the changes through quickly and to announce a spending review to "find more efficiencies in government spending". Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Sunak said he would introduce "a set of reforms as radical as the ones Margaret Thatcher drove through in the 1980s". There were gasps at how close the election to make the final two was and a real awareness of the responsibility party members now carry, on behalf of the country.

UK foreign secretary shrugs off accusations of fiscal irresponsibility after entering final round of Tory leadership contest.

La ministre britannique des Affaires étrangères Liz Truss commence la phase finale de la course à Downing Street en étant donnée favorite.

Il promet ainsi «une série de réformes aussi radicales que celles que la «Dame de fer» a conduites dans les années 1980 pour libérer la croissance et la prospérité dans tous les coins du Royaume-Uni», et de «saisir les libertés que le Brexit nous a données». «Mes valeurs sont thatchériennes, je crois au travail, à la famille et à l’intégrité». «Je suis un thatchérien, je concours en tant que thatchérien, et je gouvernerai en tant que thatchérien», martèle-t-il. Dans les colonnes du Daily Telegraph, qui titre jeudi «Avantage Truss», Rishi Sunak s’efforce de contrer la cheffe de la diplomatie sur le terrain de l’héritage de Margaret Thatcher.