Rishi Sunak, favorite to be the new prime minister, while Boris Johnson weighs his return

Rishi Sunakhead of Economy during the coronavirus pandemic, is emerging as the favorite to succeed Liz Truss as British Prime Minister, while Boris Johnson He has begun to sound the ground for a possible return a few months after resigning surrounded by scandals.

Sunak42, warned during the conservative primaries last summer that the fiscal plans of Truss the finances were going to collapse United Kingdoma warning that was accurate and has given wings to his allies to claim him as the natural successor of the head of government, who announced his resignation on Thursday.

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The former Minister of Economy was also the candidate who received the most support among the “Tory” deputies in those primaries, although he lost the last vote of that process, in which the party’s bases opted for the aggressive tax cuts that he proposed Truss to boost the economy.

The fall of the conservative leader after only 45 days in Downing Street has led Johnson to propose to his close circle the possibility of running again as a candidate, according to the newspaper “The Times”.

British Prime Minister Liz Truss enters 10 Downing Street, central London, on October 20, 2022, following a statement announcing her resignation. (DANIEL LEAL – AFP).

These are the main candidates to succeed Truss:

Rishi Sunak: He has defended the need to raise corporate tax and other taxes to begin reducing the enormous debt generated by the stimulus plans during the pandemic, which he designed himself.

The former Minister of Economy won all the rounds of the previous primaries in which the conservative deputies voted, which makes him one of the candidates capable of generating unity in a party deeply divided into factions, although he lost in the primaries – where the affiliates- in front of Truss.

Boris Johnson: The Downing Street party scandal during the pandemic plummeted Johnson’s popularity as prime minister (2019-2022), but four months after he announced his resignation he has regained ground in the polls.

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In a poll among Tory affiliates published this week, 32% of the party’s rank and file want him back in power, while 23% prefer Sunak.

Penny Mordaunt: Defense Minister under Theresa May’s government and current Conservative leader in the House of Commons, Mordaunt, 49, came third in the latest Conservative primaries. After being eliminated, she expressed her support for Truss, to whom she has been loyal until today she announced her resignation.

Mordaunt’s political profile has risen this week, having been commissioned to defend the Prime Minister in Parliament when Truss He refused to refute opposition criticism in person. Her strong speech received praise from many political commentators and she raised her chances of being elected as the next Conservative leader.

Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak attends a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street, London, on May 24, 2022. (Daniel Leal – AFP Pool).

Ben Wallace: The current Defense Minister, 52, is one of the most respected politicians within the Conservative Party for his management of the support plan for Ukraine that the United Kingdom has deployed in recent months.

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His name appears on most of the lists of candidates that could generate unity among the “Tories”, although Wallace has not expressed ambition to lead the Government and remained neutral in the previous primaries.

Solla Braverman: A favorite among the far right wing of the Conservative Party, the 42-year-old former State Attorney General is aiming to run as the preferred candidate for Conservatives who backed Truss’s neoliberal policies.

Her resignation as Home Secretary on Wednesday afternoon was one of the tips that precipitated Truss’s fall as head of government.

Source: Elcomercio