Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss to become Britain’s next prime minister | latikambourke
Liz Truss has sensationally staged a last-hour comeback to be named Tory MPs’ second choice to replace Boris Johnson, pitting the foreign secretary against the prime minister’s former chancellor Rishi Sunak in the contest to replace him.
Rishi Sunak will face off against Liz Truss in the battle to replace Boris Johnson as Britain’s prime minister.There were two spoiled ballots. Truss posted a tweet just minutes after the result was announced saying she was “ready to hit the ground from day one”. Also bowing out was Johnson who fronted his last Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons and ended the showing with “hasta la vista, baby.”The battle will be decided by roughly 160,000 Tory members and will end on September 5 with the Conservatives producing either Britain’s third woman prime minister or the UK’s first from an ethnic background.
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