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has ended his final address as leader in the House of Commons with a bizarre farewell.
"Stay close to the Americans, stick up for the Ukrainians, stick up for freedom and democracy everywhere," he said.His farewell to Parliament came as the contest to replace him was whittled down to two candidates.The next Conservative Party leader, and thus, prime minister, will be either Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss.Sunak won 137 votes and Truss got 113.Sunak has been considered the frontrunner for a long time.
Some Conservatives were worried that Sunak found this level of scrutiny hard, and are concerned he would buckle under the pressure of being prime minister.Despite this, he has consistently led the pack among Conservative MPs in the first rounds of voting. Opposition leaders would be quick to remind Sunak that he was fined at the same Partygate event as Johnson.
She has stood by her leader throughout all of his scandals, justifying that fact she didn't resign over the Pincher scandal because she was coordinating the UK's response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. As the former, she has tub-thumped as loudly as Johnson over each and every trade deal signed, even ones that were simply rollover deals from the UK's time in the EU.
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