UK PM race: Final countdown begins for Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss
World | September 05, 2022 17:27 ISTUK PM race: If elected, 42-year-old Rishi Sunak will go on to make history as the first Prime Minister of the UK of Indian heritage.
UK PM race: If elected, 42-year-old Rishi Sunak will go on to make history as the first Prime Minister of the UK of Indian heritage.
Rishi Sunak, from being the clear frontrunner in the early knockout stages of the contest with the Tory MPs, has been trailing Truss in most surveys of party members voting to elect a new leader to succeed Johnson.
Rishi Sunak news: The 42-year-old British Indian former finance minister pegged his campaign around a focus on getting a grip on soaring inflation, a 10-point plan to tackle illegal immigration.
UK PM Race: Sunak, 42, and Truss, 47, have gone head-to-head in a dozen hustings up and down the UK over the past month to win over the votes of an estimated 160,000 Tory electorate.
UK PM Race: Foreign Secretary Truss, who is the current frontrunner according to pre-poll surveys and bookie’s odds, was due to face tough questions from veteran BBC political journalist Nick Robinson in a one-on-one interview – already done by Sunak earlier this month.
Rishi Sunak News: On China, the former minister reiterated his stand on the need to be “very robust” in defending the UK against its aggressiveness.
UK PM Race: With just over a week to go before the vote for a new leader closes to Tory members on September 2, Sunak’s team warned Truss’ policy pledges would plunge the UK economy into an inflation spiral.
The video, first used to introduce Sunak at a hustings event in Manchester on Friday night, shows the former Chancellor at a series of campaign events since the race began last month and addressing Tory members who are voting for a new party leader to take charge as British Prime Minister on Septemb
Some MPs are predicting that the former chancellor will opt to leave the Parliament if he loses the battle for Prime Minister, although allies insist he is 'not going anywhere', Daily Mail reported.
Salman Rushdie stabbed: The former Chancellor told ‘The Daily Telegraph’ that attempts to revive the Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), may be futile and therefore it was important to assess action against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Salman Rushdie attack: The 75-year-old writer remains on a ventilator after being airlifted to the hospital and undergoing hours of surgery following the attack in New York state.
Rishi Sunak news: As a devout Hindu, Sunak is a regular at the temple where he was born in Southampton and became the first Chancellor to light Diwali diyaas outside his official residence of 11 Downing Street in November 2020.
UK PM race: The former finance minister stuck to his central plank and focussed his message on the need to get a grip on soaring inflation before cutting taxes.
Rishi Sunak in his campaign pledge notes that extremists do not just want to attack UK's values, but Britain's very existence.
UK PM race: Earlier, the Conservative Party members were going to be given a postal ballot which had a code with it, and they could select their preferred PM between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak.
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UK PM race: Liz Truss is leading in surveys of Tory members after vowing immediate tax cuts as Britain confronts a slump in living standards.
UK PM Election race: McCann, Talk TV’s political editor, had been scheduled to co-host alongside The Sun’s Harry Cole, but he tested positive for COVID-19 earlier Tuesday.
Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss will continue their intense campaigning up and down the country as they appear at a series of hustings organised by the Conservative Campaign Headquarters.
Rishi Sunak, the 42-year-old former Chancellor told ‘The Times’ in an interview that a business-as-usual approach would not work in the face of the serious economic challenges facing the country.
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