Live updates: Former finance minister Rishi Sunak on course to become U.K. prime minister
Contenders to lead the ruling Conservative Party and the country face a deadline of 2 p.m. local time to secure the endorsements of at least 100 of their party colleagues in Parliament . Sunak has already cleared that bar. The other declared candidate is House of Commons leader Penny Mordaunt, but it is unclear if she could meet the threshold even if most of Johnson’s backers swung behind her.
Sunak, who was born to parents of Indian descent, would be the first person of color to be British prime minister. He has talked about how his family gave him “opportunities they could only dream of” and how Britain “gave them and millions like them a chance of a better future.
made worse by her own missteps and deep divisions within her party. Her successor will face the same daunting landscape, facing spiraling inflation, government finances in dire straits, and an increasingly distrustful public.
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