Rishi Sunak declared Britain’s next prime minister
UK. Rishi Sunak to be UK’s next prime minister after winning Tory leadership race as Penny Mordaunt drops out of race – live. Rishi Sunak won and declared Britain’s next prime minister
Rishi Sunak has been announced as the UK’s next prime minister.
Chair of the 1922 Committee of Conservative MPs, Sir Graham Brady, declared that Mr Sunak had passed the threshold of 100 nominations from Tory MPs, while both Boris Johnson and Penny Mourdant pulled out the contest.