The result from the Conservative leadership race will be announced around noon on Sept. 5, and whoever wins will take over as prime minister from outgoing leader Boris Johnson
has been narrowed to two candidates – and the country is headed for either its third female prime minister or its first leader from an ethnic minority.
She is seen as a loyal supporter of Mr. Johnson, who remains well liked among much of the membership. Mr. Sunak is viewed by many Tories as someone who backstabbed the Prime Minister and helped orchestrate his ouster earlier this month. “I think Liz Truss will be our next Prime Minister,” Matthew Goodwin, a professor of politics at the University of Kent, said on Twitter after Wednesday’s results were announced. “Happy to be wrong but all data I’ve seen and run point in that direction. Sunak needs to run the campaign of his life.”
She and other leadership candidates have taken particular aim at Mr. Sunak’s decision to raise taxes as chancellor. Mr. Sunak’s parents came to Britain from East Africa and his family’s roots are in India. He would be Britain’s first racialized prime minister. Ms. Truss would be the third woman to lead the party and the country, after Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May.
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