Grant Shapps, Nadhim Zahawi Join UK Conservative Party Leadership Race

Grant Shapps, Nadhim Zahawi Join UK Conservative Party Leadership Race
Left: Transport Secretary Grant Shapps on June 20, 2022. (Aaron Chown/PA) Right: New Chancellor of the Exchequer Nadhim Zahawi leaving 10 Downing Street, London, on July 5, 2022. Dominic Lipinski/PA
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Transport Secretary Grant Shapps and Chancellor of the Exchequer Nadhim Zahawi on Saturday evening launched their bids to be the next British prime minister.

Shapps: Strategic Government

In an interview with The Sunday Times, 53-year-old Shapps said he wants to end the “two-and-a-half years of tactical government by an often distracted centre” and build a “strategic government, sober in its analysis, and not chasing the next headline.”

The report said Shapps aspires to tackle the cost of living crisis and make the UK’s economy the biggest in Europe by 2050.

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