The head of the British Conservative Party’s 1922 Committee, Graham Brady, announced that the name of the new prime minister will be announced on September 5.
“[The lawmakers] will announce the result of the new leader on Monday, 5 September, which is the date when the House of Commons is back after the summer recess,” Brady said as reported by TASS. There will be two rounds of voting by the Tory MPs, then a third round nation-wide vote of Conservative Party members on a date to be announced in late August. The first round of the voting in the Parliament was held at 6:00 PM Tuesday; the second round is expected to be on Thursday, July 14.
To pass to the second round, the candidate must receive 20 votes, and to pass to the third round requires 20 votes.
The Labour Party is attempting to put forward a motion for a no-confidence vote in Boris Johnson’s government on July 12 to be debated on July 13. They can not expect to win, as the Tories still have the majority. If the government were to lose the vote, it would trigger a general election.
In the Tuesday vote, eight candidates received the required 20 votes to go on to the second round. The front runner is recently retired Chancellor Rishi Sunak, who had the declared backing of over 40 MPs. Sunak is the richest parliamentarian in the House of Commons, by way of his marriage to the daughter of N. R. Narayana Murthy, the Indian billionaire businessman who founded Infosys. Sunak is firmly committed to the Great Reset, having previously worked for Goldman Sachs and later as partner in the hedge fund management firm The Children’s Investment Fund Management, one of the biggest financial supporters of the Great Reset lobby, including the Extinction Rebellion.
Besides the geography-challenged Russophobe Liz Truss, the current foreign minister, who takes credit for imposing the sanctions on Russia which have destroyed the British economy, there is Tom Tugendhat, a former military officer who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. As Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, he has carried out an energetic Russophobic agenda including accusing Russia of carrying out an “act of war,” referring to the wild accusation that Russian agents poisoned Sergei and Yulia Skripal in March of 2018. He also leads the effort to impose similar destructive sanctions on China.
Jeremy Hunt and Penny Mordaunt, who were in the Teresa May camp and opposed Bojo, also made the cut, along with three lesser-known Tories.
