The two candidates for the succession of Boris Johnson have detailed their program to the British press.
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The bets are not made, but the British press holds its favorite. British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is given the winner by bookmakers against ex-finance minister Rishi Sunak in the race to replace Boris Johnson. The day after their qualification for the final face-to-face on Wednesday July 21, which will be decided by the members of the conservative party and the result will be announced on September 5, the two candidates presented their projects in the press.
Both believe they are best placed to beat the Labor opposition in the next election in 2024, which the accumulation of scandals under Boris Johnson has placed at the top of the polls. In the popular daily DailyMailLiz Truss highlighted her approach “rooted in conservative values” and an immediate drop in the tax burden, which is at its highest “for 70 years”. In favor of remaining in the European Union in 2016, she estimated Thursday morning that she had “wrong”.
In the columns of Daily Telegraphwhich titles “Advantage Truss”, Rishi Sunak tries to counter the head of diplomacy on the ground of the inheritance of Margaret Thatcher. “My values are Thatcherian, I believe in work, family and integrity”, he hammers. He thus promises a series of reforms as radical as those that the “Iron Lady” carried out in the 1980s. “to unleash growth and prosperity in every corner of the UK” and of “grab the freedoms that Brexit has given us”.