Lise Treece, the front-runner to replace Boris Johnson as British prime minister, refused to answer a question on Thursday about whether she considers French President Emmanuel Macron to be her country’s “friend or foe”, saying only that about the Elysee. will judge. According to his actions.
During an election rally organized by the Conservative Party in Norwich (South East) on Thursday evening, Tries said in response to another question that he preferred French nuclear technology to Chinese.
Truss, currently foreign secretary in Britain’s caretaker government, is eyeing the keys to 10 Downing Street, succeeding Johnson, who resigned in July.
To succeed Johnson as leader of the Conservative Party and thus as prime minister, the 47-year-old must win a majority of the votes of around 200,000 Conservative activists.
Conservative party elections are still going on and the results will be announced on September 5th.
And Truss is vying for Downing Street with former economy secretary Rishi Sunak, who in turn campaigned in Norwich.
Although this election meeting did not witness a direct confrontation between the two candidates, it was an opportunity to evaluate the performance of each of them because the journalist who conducted the interview asked both candidates the same question.
While Sonak was quick to respond firmly to the question, saying that Macron was definitely a friend to her, not an enemy of Britain, Terras’s response was vague, saying: “The vote on this case is still under review. “
Terrace’s response caused laughter throughout the room.
Without explaining the reasons for his extreme caution, he added: “If I become prime minister, I will judge him (Macron) by his actions, not by his words.”
There are many contentious issues between France and the UK at the moment, particularly those related to the handling of post-Brexit cases, from fisheries to Northern Ireland.
The two NATO countries also adopted two different policies in their approach to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. While Johnson’s position was very firm on the need to confront Russian President Vladimir Putin strongly, Macron’s position was more lenient, as the Elysee wanted to preserve It became the Russian line. Talks with the Kremlin
During the same election rally, Tries was asked a few minutes later about his position on France regarding energy security in his country, where prices have risen significantly due to the increase in gas prices due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Tris responded by saying that the British government should build new nuclear-powered thermal power plants and lamented that his country had lost its leadership in this sector. He added: “If the choice is to rely on France or China, I will choose France.”
The audience in the hall responded with applause to his answer.
Source: Lebanon Debate
