Rishi Sunak has become Britain’s next prime minister after prevailing in a chaotic Conservative Party leadership race on Monday, October 24, 2022. Th
Rishi Sunak has become Britain’s next prime minister after prevailing in a chaotic Conservative Party leadership race on Monday, October 24, 2022.
This was after his chief rival for the position, Penny Mordaunt, withdrew from the race.
He will be Britain’s third leader in seven weeks and the first prime minister of color in its history.
The 42-year-old former chancellor of the Exchequer who is the son of Indian immigrants, Mr. Sunak won the contest to replace the ousted Liz Truss, who resigned under pressure last Thursday, October 20, 2022.
Boris Johnson, the prime minister before Ms. Truss, pulled out of the race on Sunday night of October 23, 2022, clearing a path for Mr. Sunak, who challenged Ms. Truss last summer but lost in a vote of the party’s members.
As the only surviving candidate this time, Sunak was not subjected to another vote of the membership.
It was a head-spinning reversal of fortune for Sunak, whose resignation from Johnson’s cabinet in July 2022, set in motion the events that brought down his boss and pitched Britain into weeks of political upheaval.
