Britain's ruling conservative party is scheduled to hold the first round of the new party's first election on the 13th, opening the "first battle" of the new prime minister's battle. At this stage, three candidates have won the support of at least 20 conservative parliamentarians and received "tickets" to participate in the first round of voting. According to the election rules announced by the conservative party on the 11th, the new party's first election is roughly divided into two stages: in the first stage, 358 Conservative MPs vote to lock two final candidates, and in the second stage, all conservative party members vote, and the winner will serve as the new party leader and the new British Prime Minister. The nomination process for candidates was completed before 18:00 local time on the 12th (1:00 Beijing time on the 13th), and candidates supported by at least 20 Conservative Party members entered the first round of voting. In the first round of voting, candidates who cannot win the support of at least 30 lawmakers will be eliminated. The second round of voting is scheduled to be held on the 14th. If the top two candidates are not determined at that time, voting will continue next week. After Boris Johnson announced his resignation as the leader of the ruling Conservative Party and prime minister last week, 11 people announced to join the succession race, including former finance minister Richie sunak, former health minister said Javed, finance minister nazim Zahavi, former foreign minister Jeremy Hunt, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the house of Commons Tom tugendat, Secretary of state for trade policy Penny mordant Foreign secretary Elizabeth trass and others. At this stage, three people have won the support of at least 20 members of Parliament and successfully entered the first round of voting, namely sunak, tugendat and mordant. The media predicted that TRAS, Zahavi and hunt are also expected to cross the threshold of the first round of voting. According to Reuters, sunak, mordant and trass are the main "leaders" in this election. Sunak officially launched the campaign on the 12th. He resigned as finance minister on the 5th. It was he and Javid who resigned, triggering a "wave of departures" of senior government officials, forcing Johnson to agree to step down. Sunak said in the campaign that day that he was the right person to replace Johnson and had the ability to deal with the current economic difficulties in Britain. In response to the promise of substantial tax cuts made by other candidates, he called on his opponents not to "tell good fairy tales", saying that he would take curbing inflation as his priority. Deputy Prime Minister Dominique Rabb and Transport Secretary grant Sharpes expressed support for sunak, saying that the latter had "experience and ability" to become the new British Prime Minister. Shapps originally joined the campaign, but soon gave up and supported sunak. As one of sunak's main rivals, trass won the support of two ministers in the Johnson Administration on the 12th. According to British media reports, the two ministers are believed to have a close relationship with Johnson and have both criticized sunak. According to British media, whoever becomes the new prime minister will face a series of problems such as Britain's current serious inflation, high debt, slow economic growth and soaring living costs. However, these candidates need to survive the fierce inner-party competition first, and some of them may encounter malicious comments from their opponents. (Xinhua News Agency)