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Breaking: #ToryLeadershipRace: Rishi Sunak is next UK PM as Mordaunt drops out

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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.

 

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CityNews Nigeria 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 100 MP threshold.

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He will become the UK’s first British Asian PM and at 42, the youngest in more than a century

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Labour have reiterated their call for a general election, as have the Scottish National Party.

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