Rishi Sunak To Be Next UK Prime Minister

 

Rishi Sunak will become the UK's next prime minister after Conservative leadership rival Penny Mordaunt dropped out of the race at the last minute.

 

The former chancellor was selected by MPs to succeed Liz Truss and will enter Downing Street less than two months after he lost the last race.

 

Rishi Sunak was declared the next leader of Britain's Conservative Party by the head of the 1922 Committee of Conservative lawmakers on Monday, October 24, placing him as the country's next prime minister. The committee sets the rules for selecting and changing the party's leader.

 

 

His rival, Mordaunt in withdrawing from the race, says Sunak has her "full support" as she withdraws from race.

 

Mordaunt had been scrambling to get enough support from MPs to make the final ballot in the leadership race, while Sunak passed the threshold comfortably.