Advocate for voting rights for UK citizens in OTs eliminated from UK PM race
Thomas G.J. Tugendhat was eliminated after receiving 31 votes, down one from his performance in the second round last Thursday.
Conservative MPs are now voting in the latest ballot to decide the two leadership candidates to be put to a vote of members.
One of the four remaining contenders - Rishi Sunak, Penelope M. Mordaunt, Mary Elizabeth Truss, and Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch - will be eliminated after today's vote.
The vote to decide the final two contenders is scheduled to then take place on Wednesday, July 20, 2022.
Mr Sunak looks almost certain to make the final two, with the other three candidates vying for second place.
Tory party members will then pick the winner after a summer of campaigning by the two final contenders, with a result announced on September 5, 2022.
Who is Thomas G.J. Tugendhat?
Mr Tugendhat was the chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee that wrote the recent report "Resetting the Relationship."
Recommendation 9 of the report states: "The UK Government should initiate a consultation with the elected governments of the OTs and work with them to agree a plan to ensure that there is a pathway for all resident UK and British Overseas Territory citizens to be able to vote and hold elected office in territory."
This is interpreted to mean that a UK citizen on a work permit in the [British] Virgin Islands would be able to vote, and run for office, in the territory.
Mr Tugendhat had put his military past at the centre of his campaign for the UK Prime Minister’s post but was eliminated, leaving the 31 votes of his supporters up for grabs.
A new PM is being sought following the resignation of disgraced Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, who was forced out by his own party members.
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7 Responses to “Advocate for voting rights for UK citizens in OTs eliminated from UK PM race”
WHY A UK BORN HAVE TO WORK ON
A WORK PORMIT IN THE OT ?
THAT DONT SOUND RIGHT.
The UK on the other hand, very much likes that their OT citizens are apart from them and only pay lip service to them. The UK only finds time to acknowledge their OTs when it's convenient to them and even then they are bias towards some and against others. British citizens always complain about their status when they go to OTs but they never ask about OT citizens in the UK and how hard they had to fight to even be considered British and in some ways it's just in name only.
No need for long talk. Get yo sk***.