Former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss were the last two candidates left standing to replace Boris Johnson as U.K.'s next prime minister in early September.
The bitter campaign has exposed deep divisions in the Conservative Party at the end of Johnson's scandal-tarnished three-year reign. Opponents have branded Sunak a "socialist" for raising taxes in response to the economic damage wrought by the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine. Sunak has hit back that his rivals are peddling economic "fairy tales."
Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak meets with Conservative Party members and activists, in Teesport, Redcar on July 16. If he wins the party vote, Sunak would become the youngest British prime minister, and the first of South Asian origin. As foreign secretary, Truss has been front and centre in Britain's support for Ukraine and Western sanctions against Russia over the invasion of its neighbour. Two British nationals jailed in Iran have also returned home during her tenure.
In Britain's 2016 referendum on whether to leave the European Union, Truss backed the losing "Remain" side, in contrast to Sunak. But she has served in Johnson's staunchly pro-Brexit government as trade secretary and then foreign secretary, and has won the support of the Conservative Party's most fervent Brexiteers.
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