Billionaire Rishi Sunak to be UK’s new Prime Minister

Former British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak. Hollie Adams/Getty Images The new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom will succeed Liz Truss, who has only been in office for a month and a half. Her rival Penny Mordaunt has withdrawn from the race at the last moment by not get the necessary guarantees Former Minister of Economy Sunak will be the third British Prime Minister in three months Former Minister of Economy Rishi Sunak (42 years old) will be the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He the fifth in just six years and the third in three months. He is the first Briton of Indian origin and Hindu religion to occupy 10 Downing Street and will succeed Liz Truss, who has only lasted a month and a half in office. The leader of the Conservative Party in the House of Commons, Penny Mordaunt, has withdrawn from the race at the last moment after not obtaining the necessary guarantees. This Monday at 2:00 p.m. (3:00 p.m. Spanish peninsular time) was the limit for the candidates to present the 100 endorsements of Tory deputies necessary to wage the battle for the leadership of the Conservative Party. The parliamentary group is made up of 357 deputies, so with these requirements only three candidates could compete for it. The 1922 Conservative Party Committee had raised the number of endorsements needed to thus reduce the number of applicants and speed up the primary process (in the previous duel in which Liz Truss finally won, the number was 22). In this sense, there are also those who believe that this movement has tried to stop the return of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The 1922 Committee established that if only one of the applicants achieved 100 endorsements, as has happened, he would automatically become Prime Minister (no grassroots vote). The billionaire Sunak was the candidate who has the most support in the House of Commons and the favorite of the markets, but he is not so popular among the conservative bases. backup would be out. Afterwards, the Conservative Party affiliates with the right to vote (160,000 people) would have until Friday to choose their candidate between the two finalists.