These eleven want the job of prime minister in Great Britain

Posted On: August 12, 2022

Shortly after, Rehman Chishti also came to the field, report Sky News. As recently as this month, he was appointed to a leadership position at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

There are now eleven candidates for the Prime Minister job in the United Kingdom.

The 1922 Conservative Party Committee on Monday will set a timetable for the election of a new leadership.

Truss announced his candidacy at Daily Telegraph and he told the newspaper he would cut taxes “from day one” if he was elected prime minister.

– I stand as a candidate because I lead, deliver and make difficult decisions. “I have a clear vision of where we need to be, and the experience and determination it takes to get there,” Truss said.

Central theme tax

He also hinted that he would join his rivals in cutting corporate taxes, reversing the National Insurance contribution increase and corporate tax reform.

Several candidates have applied over the weekend, and many of them have made tax policy a central theme in their bids. However, questions have been raised about how the candidates will pay their tax pledges, writes the BBC.

Jeremy Hunt, Sajid Javid, former secretary of health, and secretary of commerce Penny Mordaunt announced Saturday night that they were standing.

Experienced politician

Truss flew home early from the G20 meeting in Bali, Indonesia, last week after Johnson announced he was stepping down as prime minister and leader of the Conservative Party.

The 46-year-old foreign minister has served in three Conservative governments since he was elected to Parliament in 2010.

He was environment minister in David Cameron’s government from July 2014 to June 2016, and he was justice minister in Theresa May’s government from July 2016 to June 2017, before being appointed secretary of state by Boris Johnson last year.

Truss grew up in Leeds in northern England and worked for ten years in the energy and telecommunications sectors before entering politics, according to the AFP news agency.

Nothing is clear

Trine Anderson, editor for britishpolitik.nobelieves that the Conservative Party has no clear successor to Johnson.

– The problem for the party is that they haven’t been able to rally a candidate who can take over, and that’s why Boris Johnson has been in office for so long. Last time it was rather clear that Boris Johnson was the crown prince, while now there is no Boris to take over from Boris, Andersen told TV 2.