Rishi Sunak will be Britain's next prime minister, the country's third in 7 weeks.
This time, those members didn’t have a say because Sunak was the only candidate to get the requisite support of 100 lawmakers to reach a potential runoff.
Born in the southern port city of Southampton, Sunak became the member of Parliament for Richmond in the northern region of Yorkshire in 2015. His rapid rise through the ranks saw him Sunak was Johnson's finance minister, the second most powerful position in government. But after yet another scandal emerged raising questions of Johnson's relationship to the truth, Sunak resigned and ultimately helped bring down his then-boss.
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