who will succeed Boris Johnson as Prime Minister?

After Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May, Liz Truss could become the third woman to hold the office of Prime Minister in the United Kingdom, as of Tuesday September 6. She prances in the lead in the polls ahead of her opponent for the nomination, Rishi Sunak. Tory activists were up to 18 h, Friday, September 2, to decide. The one who has been in government for ten years, currently Minister of Foreign Affairs, is a big favorite.

Coming from the center-left before joining the conservatives, she nevertheless proposes to lower taxes and social assistance. “I want a country where people who work hard, start their own businesses, go to work, get rewarded”, she insists, invoking the figure of Margaret Thatcher. Rishi Sunak, rather new in politics and one of the first to have let go of Boris Johnson, said he did not want such measures during the crisis. The results will be revealed on Monday, September 5, for a start the next day.