UK: There are now only two contenders for the position of the next Tory leader. Here are their most recent odds and policy statements. On Wednesday of last week, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak qualified for the final two, while Penny Mordaunt previously the bookmakers' favorite was eliminated in a fifth round of voting by Conservative lawmakers.

Rishi Sunak: The man who resigned earlier this year despite the non-DOM tax status of his multi-millionaire wife and his own awkward decision to retain a US green card during most of his time at the Treasury, the man who resigned to Boris Johnson's downfall. because the chancellor could still succeed him.

The 42-year-old is one of the few candidates with the experience and skills needed to make the right move in the top job, but his biggest challenge may be convincing his fellow lawmakers that his resistance to tax cuts would make him fit to run the country. Is.

Outlining his foreign policy stance, Mr Sunak has promised that if he is elected prime minister, all Confucian institutions, which offer Mandarin in universities and schools, but are affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party, will be closed. Will be given

Additionally, he has promised to "infuse a healthy dose of common sense" into the asylum system by imposing a cap on the number of refugees.

On 23 July, Mr Sunak wrote an editorial for The Telegraph, in which he said: "Thousands of people enter the UK illegally every year, and often we have no idea where they are from or why they are there. The system is in disarray.

In an early sign of his stance on crime, he has pledged to set up a new criminal offense to create or facilitate gangs, which will result in harsher punishment. In addition, he supported giving ministers the right to veto decisions made by the parole board and asked offenders to serve longer terms in prison if they skip the sentencing trial.

Emphasizing that he is not too wealthy to serve as Tory leader and prime minister, Mr Sunak urged people to evaluate him according to his actions rather than his bank balance.

He hoped that his upbringing, which saw him as a fortune in the city, would inspire others.

On Saturday, Mr Sunak criticized "the powers that be" for backing rival Liz Truss to lead the Conservative Party in the future. He announced to an audience at Grantham that he was a "Dalit" in the race.

Liz Truss: Liz Truss is now the front-runner to become the next prime minister, after Tory MPs elected on July 20 to lead in the last two of the leadership race with Rishi Sunak.

Several recent polls showed that members of the Conservative Party, who would decide the contest, preferred Ms Truss over Mr Sunak, with bookies favoring her.

Claiming that the government is "going in the wrong direction on tax," Ms Truss criticized Mr Sunak's track record.

When Ms Truss announced her candidacy for Tory leadership, she pledged to cut taxes starting on her first day in office, saying it was time to return to conservative principles.

The foreign secretary indicated in an article in The Telegraph announcing her candidacy that she would reduce corporation tax, roll back national insurance hikes and restructure trade rates.

Seven well-known economists have backed Ms Truss's plans for "timely, targeted and fully affordable tax cuts", writing to the Telegraph to express their support for her tax-cut proposals.

Holding a launch event for her Tory leadership campaign, Ms Truss argued that she could be trusted with Brexit, despite voting in the 2016 EU referendum. "We need to deliver on Brexit and all the opportunities it presents," she said. We must win the struggle for freedom both at home and abroad.

The Foreign Secretary on Sunday unveiled plans to build ideal villages for the twenty-first century to house workers of "a new industrial revolution". To boost investment in Britain, it vowed to convert abandoned brownfield sites across the country into "full-fat-free ports".

By the end of the decade, he also promised to see private businesses grow faster than the public sector and bring the UK economy back to pre-Brexit levels.

In contrast, Ms Truss promised on Saturday that if she becomes prime minister, she would start a "bonfire of kwangos" and transfer hundreds of millions of pounds from "bureaucratic bodies" to advance services.

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