In fact, it has become increasingly difficult to stay in office
According to CCTV News: On October 20th local time, British Prime Minister Elizabeth Tras announced his resignation as head of the British Conservative Party. Tras said he was unable to meet his mission as Conservative leader and had informed the king of his resignation decision. She said the new party leader was elected within a week and she would continue to serve as prime minister before.
is only 45 days away from being sworn in on September 5. Although she has not resigned legally, the qualifier "change people within a week" has "locked her" on the record of the shortest term Prime Minister in history in Britain.
↑British Prime Minister Tras. Image source: Xinhua News Agency
As early as the time when former Prime Minister Johnson resigned and Tras attacked the prime minister's throne as a challenger, people kept pointing out Tras's "hard flaws": pursuing "like" Mrs. Thatcher is difficult to copy the latter's ability and political wisdom, and the tax cut plan is "contradictory, but it is actually difficult to fulfill"... But Tras still entered the official residence of No. 10 Downing Street through a complex and long party election process.
htmlOn September 23, the Trass government announced the largest tax cuts in the UK in 50 years, including the cancellation of the highest income tax rate that only applies to high-income people, and the reduction of income tax and property stamp duty. According to professional analysis, these measures will lead to a reduction of fiscal revenue of 45 billion pounds without any clear means to fill the gap, which has triggered the market and society's imagination and panic about the cabinet's "debt reduction" and "cut public spending and social welfare to reduce taxes". At the same time, the cancellation of the highest income tax rate is considered to be "robbing the poor and helping the rich", which has also caused widespread dissatisfaction, resulting in a sharp drop in the UK financial market and the pound exchange rate, and the public opinion support rate has taken a sharp turn for the worse.Tras once tried to "string" and finally realized that "this road is blocked", and then "lost the car to protect the coach". On October 14, she hurriedly recalled Secretary of the Exchequer Kwaten, who was attending the World Bank meeting in New York, USA, and directly dismissed her and appointed her "long-term political enemy" Hunter to succeed him. After losing the election, Hunter supported Sunak to compete with Tras for the party's head. Sunak firmly opposed tax cuts and advocated fiscal austerity. Hunter indeed announced less than a week after taking office that the "almost all" of the Telas tax cuts plan would be abolished.
htmlOn October 19, Tras also claimed that he was "not a give-up person", why can't he stand it now?Some analysts pointed out: First, on the 14th, Tras' attempt to spend money on pensions was intended to test her appeal, but many key cabinet members said they "don't agree", which shows that she seems to be unable to command her cabinet; secondly, many Conservative MPs have publicly called on her resignation, and Brevorman criticized her policies when resigning, which inevitably reminded her of the "big tyrant" that led to Johnson's resignation; again, in the House of Revenue on the 19th, Labour MPs tried to vote on a motion to oppose Tras, causing chaos. Since then, more than a dozen Conservative backbenchers have turned against her, which seems to be the last straw that overwhelmed Tras. Under such circumstances, it became increasingly difficult for Tras to remain in office. Although it is far from the red line of Brady, chairman of the Conservative Lower House Parliamentary Caucuses "1922 Committee", "one-third of the Conservative MPs agreed to start impeachment of the Prime Minister", Tras clearly felt great pressure and finally chose to "flash".
At present, the opposition Labour leader Stamer, Liberal Democratic Party leader David and Scottish Chief Minister Sturgeon all called for early elections, rather than to revise the Conservative Party’s election as a successor prime minister, but the opposition has not yet been able to come up with a sufficiently attractive political platform and introduce a leader with sufficient appeal.
In fact, in the "study" of the Conservative Party's upper-level "study", the candidate who currently has the highest support for successor is Johnson, who just "exited" not long ago. Many people believe that "only by letting Johnson enter the palace in the second time, the Conservative Party will not lose its ruling status in ", but in the context of the British market and the public's minds, Johnson, who was once betrayed and able to "trot" with "scramble", will also face a "big bet" that is at risk of life and death in the January 2025 election.
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