Tuesday 25 October 2022 – 1:08
LONDON, October 24 / WAM / It was announced today in the UK that Rishi Sunak, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, has taken over the leadership of the ruling Conservative Party in the British Parliament and Prime Minister, to succeed Prime Minister Liz Terrace’s resignation. .
Sunak has won the support of at least 100 party deputies in Parliament, which is the minimum necessary to run for president of the party, at a time when his only competitor, Benny Mordaunt, the leader of the majority in Parliament, announced his retirement from the race at the last minute, after failing to get the support of 100 deputies to run in circles, the second.
With this, Sunak, 42, of Indian descent, enters British political history as the youngest prime minister and the first non-white to occupy the highest position in the country.
In his first speech after his election as party leader and prime minister, Rishi Sunak said the UK faces “enormous economic challenges” and called for stability and unity within the party to overcome them.
Mustafa Badr El Din
