Rishi Sunak crosses the threshold of 100 endorsements to succeed Liz Truss as head of the British Government

MADRID, 22 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The former British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak has reached this Friday night the one hundred necessary endorsements among the 'Tories' deputies in the House of Representatives to run as a candidate to succeed Liz Truss at the head of the Conservative Party and the Government of the United Kingdom.

The one who was also a candidate in the last Conservative primaries has reached this figure after the deputy for the Bournemouth East district, Tobias Ellood, announced his decision in a message on Twitter.

"The free market experiment is over: it has been a low point in our party's great history. The reset begins. It is time for a stable, fiscally responsible, centrist government that provides credible national and international leadership. Honored to be the 100th Tory MP to support Rishi Sunak," Ellod said in his statement.

In this way, Sunak has been the first of the possible candidates to obtain the minimum of one hundred supports imposed by the 1922 Conservative Party Committee in order to speed up the primary process, since the maximum number of candidates is reduced to only three.

Specifically, the 'tories' have set themselves the objective of resolving the succession of the now former British prime minister in a week, which is why the guarantees required to apply for the position of chief executive of the United Kingdom have increased from 20 to 100 .

However, the president of the 1992 Committee, Graham Brady, has confirmed Friday, October 28, as the date to solve the succession of the leader in the Conservative Party. It will thus be an agile change, far from the two months that the 'Tories' needed to complete the succession of Boris Johnson.

"We should have a new leader in command before the tax declaration that will take place on October 31," Brady explained to the media on Thursday, shortly after Truss appeared to confirm that he could not complete the mandate he received a month and a half ago. of their own peers.

Berry, who has suggested that "if there is only one candidate, there is only one candidate", thus putting on the table the possibility of a possible consensus name, has later explained that anyone who wants to run as a candidate must have the support of at least a hundred Conservative MPs.

In addition, he pointed out that on Monday at 2:00 p.m. (one more hour in mainland Spain) the period for submitting applications will close. If at that time there was more than one candidacy, a process would begin that would culminate on Friday but, in the event that there was only one candidate, he would be appointed as the new prime minister on the same Monday.

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the leader of the Conservative Party in the House of Commons, Penny Mordaunt, have already received the support of dozens of conservative deputies, although they remain far from the barrier of one hundred required by the 1922 Committee.

So far, Johnson - who has not yet made his candidacy official - has received the support of up to 52 deputies who have expressed support in messages on social networks, as reported by the newspaper 'The Telegraph'.

"Boris should not have left, I think he was an absolutely outstanding prime minister," said Conservative MP Peter Bone, assuring that "there is a wave" of support for Boris Johnson among Conservative voters and party members for him to return to office. Downing Street.

The former parliamentary private secretary of the Conservatives and Johnson's ally, James Duddridge, has also shown his support for the former British prime minister, assuring that he "is ready" to lead the party again, according to the aforementioned newspaper.

All in all, Mordaunt would have collected so far 22 of the one hundred supports necessary to formalize her candidacy for the post of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

During the afternoon this Friday, the British deputy was the first person in charge of the party to formally declare her intention to succeed Liz Truss as head of Downing Street.

"I have been encouraged by the support of colleagues who want a new beginning, a united party and leadership in the national interest," Mordaunt said on his Twitter account.

For all these reasons, Mordaunt is running "to lead the Conservative Party and become Prime Minister" with the intention of "uniting the country, keeping promises and winning the next general election."

In terms of voter support, a YouGov poll placed Mordaunt as the fourth most popular candidate to succeed Truss, behind former Prime Minister Boris Johnson (32 percent support); former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak (23 percent) and Defense Minister Ben Wallace (10 percent), who this Friday has declined to run for the head of government race.