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Tory Leadership Hopefuls Battle to Secure MPs’ Votes

July 13, 2022
Stephen M.Cby Stephen M.C
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Tory Leadership Hopefuls Battle to Secure MPs’ Votes

Entrance of No.10 Downing Street

Tory leadership hopefuls are battling to secure the support of their colleagues, ahead of the first Members of Parliaments’ vote in the contest for No.10.

The eight candidates who have made it onto the ballot paper will have to secure at least 30 votes to stay in the race to become the next Prime Minister. It is the first of a series of secret ballots over the next few days to whittle the field down to a final two.

It came as Penny Mordaunt launched her leadership campaign. She joined Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman, Jeremy Hunt, Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Tom Tugendhat and Nadhim Zahawi on the ballot, as all have secured the required 20 nominations from Tory Members of Parliament to make it into the first round.

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As the race to secure votes steps up a gear, Trade Minister, Mrs. Mordaunt pledged to slash VAT on fuel and raise income tax thresholds. Setting out her stall at a hot, crowded launch event, she also promised parents more flexibility over subsidised childcare and said she would give Members of Parliament control over “social capital pots” to spend on their local areas.

Pitching herself as a team player, she said if she wins office, she would introduce a “tighter” cabinet of Ministers with powers across Whitehall. Adding that the Conservative Party “lost its sense of self”, she also vowed to return to the values of “small state, low tax, personal responsibility”.

Starting & Closing Time for Voting

Ex-Health Secretary, Sajid Javid, and Junior Minister, Rehman Chishti, dropped out of the race, after failing to pick up enough support. The 30-vote threshold, which has been introduced to quickly narrow the field, could see a number of further candidates knocked out.

Wednesday’s (July 13, 2022) ballot will see voting start at 13:30, with a result expected at 17:00 BST. Candidates will also appear at two further hustings events, as the race to secure endorsements heats up.

Divisions Among Members

The campaign so far has laid bare Tory divisions over taxation, with a number of candidates attacking the rise in taxes under Mr. Sunak’s chancellorship. All the contenders are pledging to bring in immediate tax cuts if they win, apart from Mr. Sunak who said cuts should wait until inflation goes down. Among those promising to reduce taxes, there are divisions over which taxes should be cut, and how quickly.

In an interview with the media, Mr. Sunak said tackling inflation is his “number one economic priority”, and claimed former Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, an icon on the right of the party, would have backed his approach. But one of Mrs. Truss’s backers, Mr. Rees-Mogg attacked Mr. Sunak’s record at the Treasury, disclosing that the “tax-increasing chancellor” made decisions “of the left rather than on the right”.

Additionally, Mr. Rees-Mogg mocked Mr. Sunak’s Brexit credentials, branding him as an “ostensible Brexiteer” whose department resisted ending the “supremacy of EU law” during his tenure.

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