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英国前首相鲍里斯·约翰逊急匆匆地从加勒比海假期中赶回来，却出人意料地退出了首相角逐。这个操作在外人看来无疑是亲自将首相位置“拱手相让”。
虽然还有一位竞争者，但对里希·苏纳克来说貌似构不成威胁，他已经在社交媒体上宣称将接替特拉斯担任首相了。
Britain's former finance minister Rishi Sunak confirmed on Sunday he was standing to replace Liz Truss as prime minister. "The United Kingdom is a great country but we face a profound economic crisis," he said on Twitter.英国前财政部长里希·苏纳克周日证实，他将接替利兹·特拉斯担任首相。他在推特上说：“英国是一个伟大的国家，但我们面临着严重的经济危机。”"That's why I am standing to be leader of the Conservative Party and your next prime minister." Sunak was defeated by Truss in the race to replace Boris Johnson in September after losing an election held by members of the Conservative party across the country.“因此我将竞选保守党领袖和你们的下一任首相。”在9月份保守党成员在全国各地举行的选举中落败后，苏纳克在接替鲍里斯·约翰逊的竞选中被特拉斯击败。Even before declaring on Sunday, Sunak had received more support from Conservative lawmakers than his rivals - former defence minister Penny Mordaunt and Johnson, who is attempting a comeback.甚至在周日宣布之前，苏纳克从保守党议员那里获得的支持比他的竞争对手前国防部长彭妮·莫当特和约翰逊更多，他正试图卷土重来。![]()
Sunak quit Johnson's government in July, helping trigger a rebellion that bought him down. "There will be integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level of the government I lead and I will work day in and day out to get the job done," he said in a statement.苏纳克于7月份退出了约翰逊内阁，激发了一场将他赶下台的叛乱。“我所领导的各级政府都将是正直、专业和负责的，我也会不辞辛苦坚决完成工作。”他在一份声明中说。Boris Johnson pulled out of the race late Sunday, averting a contest between the two men that threatened to split the ruling Conservative Party and further roil financial markets. And he added that “you can’t govern effectively unless you have a united party in parliament.” 鲍里斯·约翰逊上周日晚些时候退出了竞选，避免了与苏纳克之间的竞争，约翰逊认为这场竞争可能会分裂执政的保守党，进一步搅乱金融市场。并且他补充道：“除非议会中有一个团结的政党，否则你无法有效地执政。”The decision by Mr. Johnson leaves Mr. Sunak as the heavy favorite to replace Liz Truss in the top job. On Sunday Mr. Sunak had at least 128 public backers, while Ms. Mordaunt had around 23 supporters out of 357 Tory lawmakers, according to the British Broadcasting Corp.约翰逊的决定让苏纳克成为接替利兹·特拉斯的热门人选。据英国广播公司报道，上周日苏纳克至少有128名公开的支持者，而莫当特在357名保守党议员中只有大约23名支持者。It is unclear, however, how many of Mr. Johnson’s backers will now throw their support behind Ms. Mordaunt, a former defense minister. If Ms. Mordaunt does clear the nomination threshold by the Monday afternoon deadline, then the Conservative Party’s 170,000 members would pick a winner by Friday, and analysts say either candidate could win.然而，目前尚不清楚约翰逊的支持者中有多少人会支持前国防部长莫当特。如果莫当特在本周一下午的最后期限前通过了提名门槛，那么保守党的17万名成员将在周五前选出一名获胜者，分析人士表示，那时候任何一名候选人都可能获胜。苏纳克当初虽然败给了特拉斯，但他也指出了特拉斯经济政策的弊端，并对此发出过警告。From the first television debate with Ms. Truss, when he described her plans as a “fairy tale,” to the final days of the contest, when he said he “struggled to see” how Ms. Truss’s tax cuts and spending plans would “add up,” he sounded the alarm.苏纳克和特拉斯在第一次电视辩论中，他就把她的计划描述为一个“童话”，到辩论的最后几天，他说“他很难看到”特拉斯女士的减税和支出计划将如何“叠加作用”，他还对此发出了警告。For the past six weeks, Mr. Sunak has been lying low as his economic predictions have played out at a dizzying speed. Investors balked at Ms. Truss’s widespread tax cuts and increased borrowing; the pound slumped; government borrowing costs soared; the mortgage market was upended; and the central bank had to intervene.在过去的六个星期里，苏纳克一直在低调行事，因为他对经济的预测以令人惊讶的速度上演。投资者对特拉斯的大范围减税和增加借贷表示反对；英镑暴跌；政府借贷成本飙升；抵押贷款市场被颠覆；中央银行不得不进行干预。这种对经济政策的预测能力，也让很多人对苏纳克“产生了好感”，支持率飙升至第一便是对他的回馈。![]()
Clearly, a lot of people are now thinking, he was right and Truss was wrong and they’ve proved that in spades. The U.K. has paid a high price for that and will continue to pay a high price for that lost credibility.显然，很多人现在在想，他是对的，特拉斯是错的，他们已经证明了这一点。英国已经为此付出了高昂的代价，并将继续为这种信誉的丧失付出高昂的代价。He now is the front-runner in the number of members of Parliament who have publicly committed to him, ahead of the leader of the House of Commons, Penny Mordaunt. He added that he wanted to “fix our economy” and that he had a track record of delivery.在公开承诺支持他的国会议员数量上，他是领先于下议院领袖彭妮·莫当特的领跑者。他补充说，他想“修复我们的经济”，并且他有成功的经验。不要吃掉棉花糖![]()