British Indian former Cabinet minister Rishi Sunak maintained his lead as the race to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader and next UK Prime Minister widened on Sunday with a total of nine candidates in the fray, with Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt emerging as an early second favourite.
Mordaunt shared a video to announce her candidacy, following Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, former Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and Pakistani-origin former Health Secretary Sajid Javid.
The total line-up so distant for the leadership race incorporates Goan-origin Lawyer Common Suella Braverman, Iraqi-origin Nadhim Zahawi, Nigerian-origin Kemi Bedanoch and Tory backbencher Tom Tugendhat.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is anticipated to announce her candidacy before long as well, taking the overall to 10 potential candidates in one of the most extensive battlefields for a Tory leadership race.
"Our leadership has to change. It needs to become a little less about the leader and a lot more about the ship," said Mordaunt, who is now second ranked in the bookmaker's odds with Sunak still ahead.
If I become Prime Minister, I will protect women's rights and ensure women and girls enjoy the same freedom most males take for granted in feeling safe from assault and abuse, the UK-born former Chancellor said.
The son-in-law of Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy had propelled his offered with a vow to reestablish believe, modify the economy and rejoin the country.
He is yet to lay out his plans in full but has so far not indicated any immediate tax cuts if elected leader.
For a traditionally low-tax favouring Conservative Party, the focus of the race is expected to be on the candidates' plans to cut taxes.
Javid the UK-born son of British Pakistani bus driver who has also served as a former Chancellor in the Cabinet promised wide-ranging tax cuts, including cancelling next year's scheduled hike in corporation tax from 19 per cent to 25 per cent and instead gradually reduce it by 1p a year to 15 per cent.
"I don't believe in unfunded tax cuts. This is a funded proposal," he told
Hunt, who came second within the final Tory authority race when he lost to Boris Johnson, has set out a match arrange to diminish organization assess to 15 per cent within the Budget afterward this year in case elected.
He moreover uncovered that on the off chance that he gets to be leader, he would make former minister Esther McVey, who established the "blue collar" group aiming to target working-class voters, his Deputy Prime Minister.
Meanwhile, Nadhim Zahawi has moreover said he needs to cut taxes for "people, families and businesses" and Shapps has guaranteed to cut personal tax for the poorest.
The timetable for the leadership contest is anticipated to be declared following week after a assembly on Monday of the 1922 Committee of Tory backbench MPs, who set the rules for the race.
It will be a two-stage process, with Conservative MPs whittling down the field to two candidates through successive rounds of voting, before the wider Tory party membership elect their winner.
The new Conservative Party leader is expected to be known by early September.
The son-in-law of Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy had propelled his offered with a vow to reestablish believe, modify the economy and rejoin the country.
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