(ANSA) – MANCHESTER, 11 JUL – The list of potential successors to Boris Johnson as leader of the British Conservative Party (mostly in the House of Commons) and therefore the future prime minister of His Majesty rises to at least 12 candidates. The last name is that of Priti Patel, Minister of the Interior and hawk on migration policy in the outgoing team, given to some Italian journalists by one of his deputies, Kevin Foster, guest of honor at the inauguration of the new Italian consulate in Manchester, which returns to join the general one in London and that of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. In fact, Foster has already declared his endorsement “for Priti”.
If confirmed, it will be the 12th descent into the field a few hours after the deadline for submitting nominations to the 1922 Committee: a body within the Tory parliamentary group responsible for managing the competition and called today to define rules and voting times. that according to the latest forecasts should allow the game to be closed for early September and not for October, as initially announced by Downing Street, thus reducing the tenure of BoJo’s government for current affairs.
Patel has Indian family roots like two other suitors (Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman), in a never so cosmopolitan challenge (among conservatives and beyond) in the Kingdom. With her, the non-Anglo-Saxons on the list would rise to a total of seven out of 12: adding also Sajid Javid and Rehman Chishti (both of Pakistani blood); Nadhim Zahawi (son of Iraqi Kurdish refugees) and Kemi Badenoch, daughter of Nigerian parents. Two, Zahawi and Chishti, were born among other things in the countries of origin of the families. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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