UK: Liz Truss favorite to become the next leader of the Conservative Party

In the United Kingdom, Friday September 2 marks the last day of online voting to choose the new leader of the Conservative Party, who will succeed Boris Johnson. The approximately 200,000 party members will have to decide between the candidates Liz Truss and Rishi Sunakand Liz Truss is the favourite. “Liz Truss, the current foreign minister, has been ahead of Rishi Sunak by 20 to 40 points in the polls for the past two months. Liz Truss is a familiar face here in politics who has been in government for ten years now.”explains the journalist Ambroise Bouleislive from London (UK).

Liz Truss is “a staunch supporter of Brexit, even though she had called for a vote against this same Brexit in 2016. This is not the first time that she has changed her mind in her career, since she had started as an activist with the Liberal Democrats before moving to the Conservatives. Today, she seeks to embody a sort of modern Margaret Thatcher, even wearing the same dresses as the Iron Lady. But we must not neglect his opponent Rishi Sunak, who intends to make the polls lie, and fought until the end in this campaign.concludes the journalist.