LONDON: As party members began a month of voting to determine the next occupant of 10 Downing Street, the seat of the UK’s prime minister, the front-runner for the Conservative Party of Great Britain, Liz Truss, got another prestigious endorsement on Monday.
With a plan for future tax cuts and the chance to host a future women’s football World Cup in Britain after England’s “Lionesses,” their women’s football team, won the European championship, Truss’s trailing competitor Rishi Sunak attempted to regain lost ground.
The second of 12 members’ hustings held on Monday before the winner is declared on September 5 pitted the Tory candidates against one another in Exeter, in the southwest. After Truss sped into a commanding lead in the polls on a promise of quick tax cuts to alleviate Britain’s biggest cost-of-living problem in generations, Sunak, a polished debater, needs to regain the initiative.
