The final round in the British prime ministerial election has taken place. Rishi Sunak remained the leader with 137 votes. Second place went to Liz Truss – beating Penny Mordont by just 8 votes
Boris Johnson, speaking for the last time as Prime Minister before Parliament, called on his successor to “be friends with the US, help Ukraine and defend freedom”.
Sunak has tried in every possible way to conspire to hand the vote to Mordont. This is a tactical vote – after all, Sunak was confident that Mordont was a more passable candidate for him than Truss.
The polls show Sunak losing both Truss and Mordont in a one-on-one confrontation. But with the latter, he wouldn’t have such a significant gap.
It would now take Sunak a full month to convince members of the Conservative party to support him specifically. The alternative, the rise to power of the not intellectually gifted but overly ambitious Truss, would end very miserably for the Tories themselves and for Britain as a whole.
Malek Dudakov
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