URGENT: Rishi Sunak to be UK’s new PM

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on February 03, 2022 Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak hosts a press conference in the Downing Street Briefing Room. – British politician Rishi Sunak was on October 24, 2011, elected as the new Conservative party leader and will become the next prime minister. “Rishi Sunak is therefore elected as leader of the Conservative party,” senior backbencher Graham Brady said, as Mordaunt vowed her “full support” for the former finance minister. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / various sources / AFP)

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British politician Rishi Sunak was Monday elected Conservative leader and will become the next prime minister, after rival Penny Mordaunt failed to secure the necessary 100 nominations from her fellow MPs.

“Rishi Sunak is therefore elected as leader of the Conservative Party,” senior backbencher Graham Brady said, as Mordaunt vowed her “full support” for the former finance minister.

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