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First ballot, 6 survivors to succeed Johnson

There are six survivors left in the running to succeed Boris Johnson as Tory leader and future British premier, after the first ballot conducted today by secret vote among all the more than 350 deputies of the majority party and the counting conducted by the 1922 Committee. blocking of 30 minimum votes foreseen for this preliminary vote were – in order of preference – Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt, Liz Truss, Kemi Badenoch, Tom Tugendhat and Suella Braverman. Instead, Nadihm Zahawi and Jeremy Hunt were eliminated

Sunak, 42-year-old former Chancellor of the Exchequer, confirms himself as the front runner with 88 preferences, but behind him he also rises in the consensus of fellow deputies (and not only among the subscribers, in front of which the polls give him absolute first) the name of Penny Mordaunt, with 67 votes, surprisingly much better for now than Liz Truss’s 50. Among the outsiders, another emerging Deputy Minister of the Brexiteer draft, Kemi Badenoch, of Nigerian family origins, with 40 votes, followed by the president of the Foreign Affairs Commission of Municipalities, Tom Tugendhat, at 37, and the current attorney general Suella. Braverman, of Indian roots like Sunak and linked to the ultra-right pro Brexit, with 32.
Instead, two 90 pieces (on paper) were eliminated such as Nadihm Zahawi, new Chancellor of the Exchequer born in a family of Kurdish-Iraqi refugees, and above all Jeremy Hunt, former Minister of Health and then of Foreign Affairs: the most anti-Johnsonian of the suitors who in 2019 he reached the final ballot with Boris and has remained out of government ever since, humiliated this time in last place with only 18 votes.

Source: Ansa

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