Source: Overseas Network
Overseas Network July 21 According to the British Sky News Network, on July 20 local time, the results of the fifth round of voting for the British Conservative Party Leadership Election were released, and former Chancellor Sunak and Foreign Minister Tras were shortlisted for the last round of voting.
Among them, Sunak won 137 votes and Tras won 113 votes. Former Defense Secretary Penny Modant was eliminated.
Next, Sunak will run a six-week campaign with Tras and participate in the first TV debate on August 4. Before 5 pm on September 2, about 160,000 Conservative Party members will vote, and the results are scheduled to be announced on September 5 that the new Conservative Party leader will automatically become the prime minister.
Sunak has been leading the way in the first five rounds of voting. He is 42 years old and his parents are both immigrants from Indian descent. Sunak graduated from , Oxford University, and worked for Goldman Sachs, an internationally renowned investment bank. He was elected as a member of the British Parliament at the age of 35. He was then promoted to the British Chancellor of the Exchequer in less than 5 years. However, Sunak attended the "party gate" with former Prime Minister Johnson in June this year. He was fined by the police for violating lockdown regulations during the epidemic, which attracted public criticism.
Tras is 46 years old and was elected as a member of parliament in 2010. He has held positions in governments such as Cameron and Theresa May . On July 7, when British media reported that Johnson was about to resign, Tras interrupted his trip to Indonesia to attend the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting and returned to London urgently. (Overseas Network Liu Qiang)
