MADRID, 20 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The resignation of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Liz Truss, leads the country to a new move in Downing Street, the fifth in just seven years and all of them corresponding to leaders of the Conservative Party, which cannot find the key to stability while sinks in the polls.
This cascade of changes began in 2016 with the then Prime Minister, David Cameron, who resigned after a majority of Britons backed the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union in a referendum, against the Government’s criteria.
His departure gave way to a primary process in which the ‘Tories’ promoted the Minister of the Interior, Theresa May, who lasted three years in office. At that time, she managed to revalidate the conservative majority in the House of Commons, but the instability derived from the Brexit negotiations and the internal division ended up forcing her resignation.
May managed to overcome a motion of internal censure before being forced to resign from office, an experience similar to the one that her successor in Downing Street, Boris Johnson, would end up living, who after years as an eternal aspirant achieved the position of prime minister in July 2019.
Johnson expanded the ‘tory’ majority in the House of Commons, but the succession of controversies, including the celebration of parties during the COVID-19 pandemic in government offices, led his colleagues to turn their backs on him. The former mayor of London resigned after a cascade of resignations within his cabinet.
Johnson appeared on July 7 to announce that he was leaving, thus beginning a succession process that culminated two months later with the victory of Liz Truss, former foreign minister. Her continuous profile has been exhausted in just a month and a half, after a few weeks marked by doubts about management in the economic field.
On this occasion, the Conservative Party has decided that the replacement process be faster. The 1922 Committee, responsible for managing this change, hopes to have a result before October 28, in just over a week.
