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

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

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

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Details later….

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