Monday at noon, the officers of the 1922 Committee gathered to assess candidate applications after setting an extraordinarily high admissions standard to dissuade those from running whom group chairman Sir Graham Brady deemed “not serious.” Sir Graham determined that only one candidate had gotten sufficient votes to continue, and he crowned Rishi Sunak the winner, without revealing the number of votes he received.
This afternoon or tomorrow, it is probable that all of Liz Truss’ responsibilities as the leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, positions she has held for only 49 days as of today, may be transferred. Sunak need only tender her resignation to the King at Buckingham Palace to become prime minister; the monarch will then ask Sunak to form a cabinet.
Before Sunak enters office, the United Kingdom will have had three prime ministers in only three months. He will also make history as the first non-white and youngest Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in over 200 years.
Sunak highlighted many critical topics during his brief address at the Conservative Campaign Headquarters in London. Sunak knows that all eyes were on him when he delivered this message to his employees. It now looks like he will become Prime Minister tomorrow; hence, we may expect another address, most likely given on the steps of Downing Street. His own words:
Although the governing elite of the Conservative Party will be pleased to have their man in position after Sunak, their favored candidate was defeated by ordinary party members in the previous election; this shift cannot be beneficial for the United Kingdom. During his last stint as Britain’s Chancellor during the coronavirus era, Sunak oversaw a significant surge in government spending on Covid initiatives and a matching gain in revenue.
Unfortunately for British workers, further tax rises are likely under Sunak, as their incomes are swiftly eroded by inflation.
The political and cultural obligations of prime ministers surpass those of finance ministers. Sunak is a committed member of the World Economic Forum and has implied support from the Chinese Communist Party as a prospective leadership candidate (WEF).
With the arrival of Prime Minister Liz Truss, it appeared that the Conservative Party’s years of ardent pro-China policies were beginning to wane. However, with her abrupt resignation and Sunak’s coronation, it seems that the Conservatives are reverting to form on China.
The orthodox pretenders within the Conservative Party appreciate Sunak’s spectacular ascent. As reported last week, leading Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood is ecstatic that globalist “centrist” establishment favorite Sunak is on the edge of power, heralding the end of the “free market experiment.”
“We need a leader who can be trusted to make difficult decisions,” wrote Jeremy Hunt, the political assassin who brought down the Truss administration. Hunt was acclaimed as the “de facto prime minister” because of the influence he appeared to wield while not holding the top position. Therefore he is also glad to see Sunak assume the role of prime minister.
Hunt skilfully sidestepped the matter, omitting to emphasize that Sunak’s enormous expenditures on Covid caused the national debt.
Sunday night, when Sunak’s only major competitor, Boris Johnson, dropped out of the campaign, he was promptly proclaimed Tory leader. Johnson acknowledged in his letter thanking supporters and announcing he would not be seeking the leadership at this time that the Conservative Party appeared unmanageable due to its division, even though it had seemed plausible that he could at least make the ballot of members beginning today.
Penn Mordaunt was also a candidate, and her support remained at almost half the threshold level until Johnson withdrew on Sunday. After Johnson’s departure, however, Mordaunt’s popularity rose as Boris’s supporters moved to a cause that could keep Sunak out of government. Mordaunt also pulled out at the eleventh hour, leaving Sunak as the last survivor.