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Rishi Sunak to be UK’s next prime minister after winning Tory leadership race as Penny Mordaunt drops out of race
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Rishi Sunak Rishi Sunak to be UK’s next prime minister after winning Tory leadership race as Penny Mordaunt drops out of race
Penny Mordaunt says ‘colleagues feel we need certainty today’ as she drops out of race, leaving Rishi Sunak as winner of Tory leadership race
Rishi Sunak will be the UK's next prime minister after Penny Mordaunt dropped out of the Tory leadership race in the final minutes before nominations closed.
Sunak will succeed Liz Truss seven weeks after she defeated him in the previous Tory contest.
The ex-chancellor gained the support of well over half of Tory MPs, with Mordaunt struggling to reach the threshold of 100 MPs to get on the ballot.
