Posted on Jul 16, 2022
Here are the 5 candidates to replace U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson as Tory leader
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The search is on for a new leader of government in the United Kingdom, and the governing Conservative Party has been narrowing down the field of candidates.
After Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned as party leader earlier this month, hundreds of his fellow Conservatives in Parliament have been voting on a possible successor, who would also replace him as prime minister. This series of votes concludes next week.
The search is on for a new leader of government in the United Kingdom, and the governing Conservative Party has been narrowing down the field of candidates.
After Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned as party leader earlier this month, hundreds of his fellow Conservatives in Parliament have been voting on a possible successor, who would also replace him as prime minister. This series of votes concludes next week.
Here are the 5 candidates to replace U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson as Tory leader
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."A military veteran without previous experience as a government minister, Tugendhat has advocated increased defense spending and is currently the chair of the British Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee. He has developed a profile as a frequent critic of Johnson and his government's policies, and in particular over what he has described as Britain's disastrous military withdrawal from Afghanistan last year. He has studied Arabic in Yemen, worked in Lebanon and attended Cambridge University as a graduate student focused on Islam. Both his mother and wife are French, so he holds dual British and French nationality, and speaks a smattering of other languages with various degrees of proficiency. He was instrumental in the campaign to persuade the British government to ban Huawei, the Chinese company from having any involvement in the country's 5G mobile networks, and was sanctioned by China."
..."A military veteran without previous experience as a government minister, Tugendhat has advocated increased defense spending and is currently the chair of the British Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee. He has developed a profile as a frequent critic of Johnson and his government's policies, and in particular over what he has described as Britain's disastrous military withdrawal from Afghanistan last year. He has studied Arabic in Yemen, worked in Lebanon and attended Cambridge University as a graduate student focused on Islam. Both his mother and wife are French, so he holds dual British and French nationality, and speaks a smattering of other languages with various degrees of proficiency. He was instrumental in the campaign to persuade the British government to ban Huawei, the Chinese company from having any involvement in the country's 5G mobile networks, and was sanctioned by China."
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