Such a brutal choice portends a bleak immediate future for government in the U.K.
Johnson’s government ended even worse than it began. In a two-day period between July 5-7 this year, 57 government ministers resigned rather than serve under him. Never before in British history had so many senior members of the executive. For all his reputation as the great survivor of British politics, he is now leaving power, and the race is underway to select his successor.
The winner will be chosen by Conservative Party members by a public vote from a list of two candidates, with the winner to be announced on September 5: Rishi Sunak, previously the chancellor of the exchequer; and Liz Truss, the foreign secretary. In theory, Sunak should be the favorite, as he has held senior office for longer, and was nominated by a much larger number of Conservative members of Parliament .
Sunak is the richest MP in the House of Commons, as a result of his marriage to the Indian heiress Akshata Murty, whose father, N.R. Narayana Murthy, often called the “
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