The British opposition Conservative Party will announce its new leader today - Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick , with which the 4-month race to elect the deputy of former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reaches the final, reported DPA, quoted by BTA.
The result of the vote for a new leader is expected to be announced in the late morning hours, and voting by party members ended as early as Thursday. The winner will lead the Conservative Party, which is trying to get back on its feet after the disastrous results for the Conservatives in the general election in the UK in July, after which only 121 of their MPs were returned to the parliament.
After voting closed Thursday, both candidates thanked their supporters for their support throughout the race.
Badenock described the Conservative Party as a "family" and said: it is "much more to me than a membership organization".
Jenrick also called on the party to "get over the drama" from recent years and to "unite".
"Together we can end the excuses, move past the drama and unite our party,” he wrote on the social platform "X".
Immigration, the economy and how the Conservatives can regain the trust of British voters they lost in the general election, trying to win it back, were discussed at length during the campaign to elect a new party leader.
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