Rishi Sunak will become Britain’s youngest prime minister in modern times and the country’s first non-white leader after Conservative MPs overwhelmingly backed him to succeed Liz Truss.
The former chancellor’s path to office was cleared on Sunday when ex-prime minister Boris Johnson abandoned his hopes of a comeback, after securing the public backing of just over 50 MPs.
Penny Mordaunt, House of Commons leader and Sunak’s last remaining rival for the Conservative party leadership following Truss’s resignation last week, pulled out of the contest at the last minute ahead of the deadline for nominations at 2pm on Monday.
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