Rishi Sunak

Liz Truss's sudden resignation has kicked off a short but dramatic search for the U.K.'s next Prime Minister.

The leadership race will only be a week long, maybe even shorter. Rishi Sunak Is the Favorite to Be Next U.K. Here’s What to Know.

The number of publicly declared MPs who are backing potential candidates for the Conservative leadership is growing, with three key figures emerging: the ...

16 James Davies 16 James Duddridge Each candidate will need at least 100 signatures to make it to the first round of voting on Monday.

Rishi Sunak is back in the frame for high office as the Conservatives seek a new leader to follow Liz Truss as prime minister.

Former PM's allies say he will easily make threshold of 100 MPs, while critics warn of potential defections.

A senior former cabinet minister said the risk with Johnson was that “you never know where the next embarrassment is going to come from”. One senior backbench Tory said: “It looks to me like he’ll get the 100 nominations. Johnson will argue that only he has the ability to win an election, despite an Opinium poll suggesting Sunak would do better against Labour’s Keir Starmer. Jesse Norman, a senior Tory MP and Foreign Office minister, said returning to Johnson would be a disaster. But choosing Boris now would be – and I say this advisedly – an absolutely catastrophic decision,” he said. He said: ‘I’m flying back, Dudders, we are going to do this.

Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson may be the current favourites to replace Liz Truss, but both are loathed by their rival camps within the Tory Party.

The opposition parties, obviously, want a general election with polls pointing to a Tory wipeout. 10 says that's up to the new PM. Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson may be the current favourites to replace Liz Truss, but both are loathed by their rival camps within the Tory Party. Will Jeremy Hunt's Halloween rescue plan for the economy go ahead? Mr Johnson is a massively divisive figure. A YouGov poll this week suggested he'd be backed by 33% of members, ahead of Mr Sunak with just 23%.

Rishi Sunak is believed to have become the first Tory leadership candidate to have amassed sufficient support to make it to the ballot of Conservative ...

Sources from his campaign have told ITV News that he has already gained the 100 nominations needed to enter a ballot of Conservative party members.

“It would be even worse if the new prime minister decided they wanted to replace Jeremy Hunt with another chancellor. "I also believe it is in the national interest to have a strong Conservative Party. The only way for our party to reclaim our values and recover our reputation for stewardship is to move on from mistakes of the past and come together to focus on the future." The leadership contest is expected to be completed by the end of next week and will include both MPs and party members. "It is abundantly clear that Rishi Sunak has what it takes to match the challenges we face - he is the right person to lead our party and take the country forward. [Penny Mordaunt was the first to announce her bid](/news/2022-10-21/boris-johnson-ponders-no-10-comeback-after-liz-trusss-exit) to take over from Liz Truss as prime minister, and Boris Johnson is also expected to join the race.

Allies of the ex-chancellor say he has 100 nominations, as the former PM heads home from the Caribbean.

She later told the Daily Telegraph: "We owe it to the country to have a detailed plan of how we will deliver. Contenders have until 14:00 BST on Monday to find 100 backers. Trade Minister Sir James Duddridge told BBC News: "He is coming home and is up for it. "I will harness the talents of all sides of the Conservative Party, and all the talents of the country to deliver this." Our success should be measured in whether people really feel that we can support them. I'm up for it."

To some Conservatives, Rishi Sunak is the minister who got Britain through the COVID pandemic, to others the traitor who knifed Boris Johnson or the rival ...

In 2020, aged 39, Sunak was named finance minister just before the coronavirus pandemic hit Britain. The problems for Sunak in the leadership race contrasted with his swift rise through the Conservative Party, which began in 2015 when he was elected to parliament having previously worked for Goldman Sachs and hedge fund TCI. For his supporters in the party, Sunak's previous leadership campaign message of the need for economic prudence to address Britain's rampant inflation and criticism of Truss's "fairy tale" plans have shown he is right man for the job.

Sunak was praised for a COVID-19 economic rescue package, comprising an expensive jobs retention programme that averted mass unemployment in the country.

The tax status permits a person who was born in another country, or if their parent is from another country, to pay tax in the UK only on the income they earn in the country. Born in the UK's Southhampton area to an Indian family, Rishi Sunak is the son of a pharmacist mother and a National Health Service (NHS) general practitioner (GP) father. With the latest political crisis unfolding in the United Kingdom (UK) with Liz Truss’ resignation after 45 days at helm, Rishi Sunak, the former finance minister, is again one of the favourites to replace Truss as the next British premier.

Boris Johnson and his former finance minister Rishi Sunak were leading the potential contenders to replace British Prime Minister Liz Truss on Friday, ...

has now been very, very badly tarnished, and it may be very difficult to recover within the space of two years.” I suspect that is not what the Tory party will do, they may well re-elect him,” he told the BBC. Mordaunt is seen as a fresh pair of hands largely untainted by earlier administrations. “The country needs a grown-up, serious leader. He can turn it around again. Boris Johnson and his former finance minister Rishi Sunak were leading the potential contenders to replace British Prime Minister Liz Truss on Friday, with candidates canvassing support to become Conservative Party leader in a fast-tracked contest.

Allies of the ex-chancellor say he has 100 nominations, as the former PM heads home from the Caribbean.

She later told the Daily Telegraph: "We owe it to the country to have a detailed plan of how we will deliver. Mr Johnson's supporters said the former prime minister had "momentum and support". Contenders have until 14:00 BST on Monday to find 100 backers. Sky News pictured him on the flight, wearing a suit, and said he was with his wife and children. there are clearly over a hundred colleagues publicly declaring parliamentary support." I'm up for it."

Former UK chancellor Rishi Sunak is reported to have the 100 MP nominations needed to enter the race to be the next Conservative leader and prime minister, ...

She later told the Daily Telegraph: "We owe it to the country to have a detailed plan of how we will deliver. Contenders have until 14:00 BST (2am Tuesday NZ time) on Monday to find 100 backers. Trade Minister Sir James Duddridge told BBC News: "He is coming home and is up for it. "I will harness the talents of all sides of the Conservative Party, and all the talents of the country to deliver this." Our success should be measured in whether people really feel that we can support them. I'm up for it."

A candidate needs 100 backers to get on Monday's ballot for the new Conservative Party leader, with Boris Johnson and Penny Mordaunt trailing the former ...

It would make Mr Sunak the first MP to reach the threshold in the race to replace ousted PM Liz Truss. - Former PM Boris Johnson is said to have the support of five cabinet members Supporters of British Conservative Party MP Rishi Sunak say the former chancellor has reached the 100 backers needed to run in Monday's ballot to be the next party leader and prime minister.

In the race to 10 Downing Street, the romours are Rishi Sunak is already far ahead of his contenders. Though no candidates to succeed outgoing PM Liz Truss ...

Sunak reached the minimum threshold to run for Conservative Party leader, as the scandal-tainted Johnson targeted an audacious comeback.

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Sunak, who fell to Truss in the last leadership contest, got the backing of at least 100 Conservative Party lawmakers to enter the UK PM race. This is a key ...

The move came more than a week after the panel voted unanimously to seek testimony and documents relevant to the investigation into the incident on January 6, 2021 and its causes, Xinhua news agency reported. Of the 40 injured, 20 admitted to a hospital in Prayagraj (UP). Sunak, who fell to Truss in the last leadership contest, got the backing of at least 100 Conservative Party lawmakers to enter the UK PM race.

Rishi Sunak is in the lead early on in the latest race for Conservative Party leader. Only Penny Mordaunt has formally entered the race for the Tory ...

Rishi Sunak is in the lead early on in the latest race for Conservative Party leader. Only Penny Mordaunt has formally entered the race for the Tory nomination as of early October 21. Rishi Sunak holds an early advantage in the latest race to be UK's next prime minister.

UK Political Crisis: Boris Johnson was seen flying back in economy alongside his wife and children. | World News.

[Liz Truss ](https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/liz-truss-rishi-sunak-rishi-sunak-news-uk-economy-crisis-uk-prime-minister-liz-truss-if-not-liz-truss-then-who-indian-origin-rishi-sunak-most-likely-101665813475725.html)could also announce his candidacy for the post soon. - Boris Johnson was seen flying back in economy alongside his wife and children. - According to a poll by Opinium, UK voters would prefer Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt over Boris Johnson as the next PM. - There were reports that Boris Johnson looked "slightly bewildered" as there were a few boos when he entered the flight. UK Political Crisis: Boris Johnson was seen flying back in economy alongside his wife and children. The race for the next prime minster of Britain is heating up with former premier Boris Johnson expected to enter the race.

LONDON — They were once close allies — two Tory Brexiteers working at the very top of government to steer Britain through the pandemic.

If Johnson can make it onto the members’ ballot, he would fancy his chances against Sunak — or any of his other rivals — in a final head-to-head. Second, Sunak is widely seen to have fought a lackluster campaign against Truss last time around — and the Conservative Party prides itself on picking winners. “In that circumstance, he’d probably be much happier always being able to think ‘oh, it could have been me.’” For his part, Johnson comes with enough baggage to fill the Downing Street flat several times over. Henry Hill, deputy editor of ConservativeHome, said the two men’s electoral appeal was radically different. A few right-wingers, too — fed up of the Johnson circus — have joined them. “There had been mounting tension between the PM and Rishi for a while,” said one member of Johnson’s No. “They all still think that absolutely nothing has happened since 2019, and Boris is still this hugely popular lovable buffoon that wins elections.” Sunak tacked to a more traditional Conservative view of fiscal responsibility and Johnson was comfortable with higher spending and borrowing. For his part, Johnson has garnered support mainly from loyalist former ministers, along with a cohort of ardent Brexiteers. By the time Sunak resigned, relations between the two men had deteriorated bitterly. Nobody before Johnson has ever led the Conservative Party twice.