Boris Johnson out, Rishi Sunak Set to Emerge New UK PM
By Idris Umar, with agency reports
The United Kingdom’s Minister of State for Northern Ireland, Steve Baker, has said Britain does not need Boris Johnson again as Prime Minister.
According to reports, the lawmaker said the former Tory leader cannot be favoured if he contests, adding that the odds are in favour of former Chancellor of Exchequer, Rishi Sunak.
It would be recalled that Johnson was the prime minister from 2019 to 2022 until he was forced to resign over a series of scandals.
Reports also show that his allies are now urging him to stay out of the race to replace his successor Liz Truss, who only lasted 45 days in office.
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Johnson is still facing an investigation into whether he misled parliament when he was last in power, and several former backers have said that would guarantee a return to the constant state of drama that accompanied his previous tenure.
“This isn’t the time for Boris’ style,” Steve Baker told newsmen “I’m afraid the trouble is because of the privileges vote, Boris would be a guaranteed disaster.”
Britain has been plunged into a fresh political crisis after Truss resigned last week Thursday following her poor economic policy that sparked turmoil in financial markets, driving up borrowing costs and mortgage rates at a time of surging energy and food bills.
Mr Sunak helped to topple the Johnson administration by resigning from his post. He then lost to Liz Truss in the final round of the last leadership contest, by 43 per cent to Ms Truss’s 57 per cent. Mr Sunak was touted as a possible unity candidate to replace Ms Truss before her resignation.
