Posted on 07/14/2022 4:03:52 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
Penny Mordaunt has closed the gap on frontrunner Rishi Sunak as the five Tory leadership contenders prepare to face a TV debate showdown on Friday evening.
The former defence secretary also stretched further ahead of third-place Liz Truss as Suella Braverman was eliminated in Thursday’s second ballot of Tory MPs.
The Attorney General lost five supporters, while Ms Mordaunt picked up 16 extra backers - putting the international trade minister on 83 votes in the contest to replace Boris Johnson. -Chancellor Mr Sunak remains the frontrunner with 101 supporters, up from 88 in the first round of voting on Wednesday.
Ms Truss, the Foreign Secretary, received 64, an increase of 14 on Wednesday’s ballot, which saw Nadhim Zahawi and Jeremy Hunt eliminated from the race. Surprise challenger Kemi Badenoch scored 49 votes on Thursday - a gain of nine.
(Press Association Images) (Press Association Images) Mr Sunak said he was “incredibly grateful” for the support of his colleagues following the second ballot, which leaves him closing in on the 120 votes required to guarantee a place in the final two, who will face a vote of the Tory membership to decide the next party leader and prime minister.
“I am prepared to give everything I have in service to our nation,” he added.
“Together we can restore trust, rebuild our economy and reunite the country.”
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I am going to call it early, long before the final voting and results come in September, Penny Mordaunt will be the next British Prime Minister, making her the hottest and most well spoken national leader on the planet. And she will be a heck of a lot of a better leader than the undisciplined Boris Johnson.
British democracy is in the process of dying as Peter Hitchens as pointed out.
His column last Sunday made it clear the coup against Johnson was a coup “by the pointless against the useless”
All one can say about the Fakeservative Party in the UK and this fake drama contest is that Penny Mordaunt is worth less than a Dime Mordaunt.
NOT GUILTY!
I’d parole her maybe.....
She thinks Transwomen are men and if you disagree with her, your life will be ruined.
There is virtually no one in the “Conservative Party” that has any conservative credentials.
They have become the Lavatories.
“Al” Johnson was a frying pan now comes the fire.
The British Conservatives are Wokeists not worthy of our respect.
Actually, not....”Owen Jones accused Mordaunt of “throwing trans people under a bus to advance her own career” after she appeared to negate her 2018 statement that “trans women are women and trans men are men” by insisting on a strictly biological basis for womanhood.”
There are plenty of conservatives among the Conservative Party MP’s. Boris Johnson was just not one of them.
And the Republican Party establishment are?
She certainly doesn’t look like a guy trying to be a gal. So there is that.
Pretty much in the same toilet.
Some comments by UK Conservative party members that I’ve seen.
I’m just listing them, I haven’t tried to verify.
Penny Mordaunt, should NOT be PM.
1) Failed defense Minister, would you want her controlling UK forces.
2) Degree in philosophy, zero real world skills.
3) Army reservist, playing with broom handles. Claimed to have trained Ukrainian army in 2015.
4) Unwilling to disclose the source of £1 million per year income.
5) Close friends with New World Order specialist Bill Gates, even wrote the book “Greater, after the storm” together.
6) Member of President Bush pre-election campaign.
Talking points from a desperate Rishi Sunak ? None of those “points” matter.
Just pulled from various comments made by those claiming to be Conservative party members. I have no idea how valid they are.
Over here, they would all be considered RINOs. Somewhere between Peter King and Arlen Specter.
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