{"id":50793,"date":"2022-07-13T08:56:59","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T04:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=50793"},"modified":"2022-07-13T08:56:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T04:26:59","slug":"uk-foreign-minister-liz-truss-joins-crowded-race-forpm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/50793\/uk-foreign-minister-liz-truss-joins-crowded-race-forpm\/","title":{"rendered":"UK foreign minister Liz Truss joins crowded race forPM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Truss, 46, announced her candidacy in the Daily Telegraph newspaper on Sunday evening, saying she had &#8220;a clear vision of where we need to be, and the experience and resolve to get us there&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The bid by Truss, seen as a frontrunner in the Tory leadership contest, followed that of former defence minister Penny Mordaunt as the race expanded to 11 candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the 11 leadership hopefuls looking to become the Tory party leader have set out competing for tax plans as a core element of their proposals, BBC reported.<\/p>\n<p>The 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs that organises contests will meet on Monday to decide the timetable and rules of the leadership race.<\/p>\n<p>The two-stage process will see Conservative MPs whittle down the candidates to two, through voting rounds, before Tory party members decide the winner.<\/p>\n<p>Truss indicated that she would echo her rivals in planning to slash corporation tax, reverse the National Insurance hike and reform business rates.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign secretary said she would &#8220;fight the election as a Conservative and govern as a Conservative&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The newly-appointed Foreign Office Minister Rehman Chishti also declared his candidacy on Sunday, with the 43-year-old speaking about the importance of lower taxes, a small state and a big society.<\/p>\n<p>ZZ\/PR<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truss, 46, announced her candidacy in the Daily Telegraph newspaper on Sunday evening, saying she had &#8220;a clear vision of where we need to be, and the experience and resolve to get us there&#8221;. The bid by Truss, seen as a frontrunner in the Tory leadership contest, followed that of former defence minister Penny Mordaunt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7100,1],"tags":[9928,9940],"class_list":["post-50793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-en","category-others","tag-uk-foreign-secretary-liz-truss","tag-uk-foreign-secretary-liz-truss-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}