Rishi Sunak on top in second round of voting, will he really become the new Prime Minister of UK?

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London: Rishi Sunak of Indian origin has also gone ahead in the second round in the race for the Prime Minister of Britain. Along with this, he has presented his strong claim for the post of Prime Minister. But there are still five phases of voting among Conservative Party members. This phase will be completed by the coming Thursday. Till then only two claimants will be left to claim the post. In such a situation, it can be too early to reach any conclusion. Anyway, he is facing tough competition from Commerce Minister Penny Mordaunt in this race.

Who got how many votes?
In the second round of voting, where Sunak got 101 votes, Penny Morduent got 83 votes. In the second round of voting, Indian-origin Attorney General Suella Braverman was out of the race with the fewest votes (27). Along with this, now in this race, apart from Rishi Sunak (101 votes) and Penny Morduen (83 votes), Foreign Minister Liz Truss (64 votes), former minister Kemi Badenoch (49 votes) and Conservative Party leader Tom Tugendhat (32 votes) are left.

Sunak was ahead in the first round as well
In the first round of voting, Finance Minister Sunak got the maximum 88 votes. Commerce Minister Penny Mordendt secured 67 votes, followed by Foreign Minister Liz Truss at number three with 50 votes, former minister Kamie Badnoj in fourth with 40 votes, and Tom Tugendhat in fifth place with 37 votes.

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By July 21, it will be decided which of the two candidates will be chosen by about 2 lakh Conservative Party members as their next prime minister.

Rishi Sunak is ahead.. but the power is still far away
There are four more candidates with Rishi Sunak. In politics, till the last ball, one cannot be sure which direction the match is going to go. So it would be too early to say anything. Rishi Sunak is facing tough competition from Commerce Minister Penny Mordaunt. While Paini had secured 67 votes in the first round, his vote count reached 83 in the second round.

In this way, if Rishi Sunak has the support of 101 out of the total 358 MPs of the party, then Peni is not far away with the figure of 83. The result of the first round of votes also shows that Paini remains the party members’ favorite candidate with 27 percent support. After this, even though Nigerian-origin candidate Kemi Badenok got 49 votes in the second round, she got 15 percent support according to YouGov’s assessment, while Foreign Secretary and Women’s Equality Minister Liz, got 64 votes in the second round. Truss is tied with Sunak with 13 percent support.

Rishi, who raised his voice against controversies, is now himself surrounded by controversies
Recently, information about Rishi Sunak’s wife Akshata came out that Akshata had Indian citizenship while Rishi Sunak was in the UK as a minister. There being non-domicile meant that they did not have to pay taxes on their property.

At the same time, Sunak also retained his American permanent residence green card for 6 years after becoming a British MP. He had left her before his first official visit to America. Sunak was one of the officials of the British government who were fined for breaking the Kovid restrictions. This case was known as the party gate scandal.

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