{"id":108941,"date":"2022-10-24T16:15:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T13:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timeskuwait.com\/news\/?p=108941"},"modified":"2022-10-24T16:26:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T13:26:22","slug":"rishi-sunak-wins-race-to-become-the-uks-new-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timeskuwait.com\/news\/rishi-sunak-wins-race-to-become-the-uks-new-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Rishi Sunak wins race to become the UK\u2019s new Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunak wins Conservative Party leadership contest days after the dramatic resignation of Liz Truss as prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative politician Rishi Sunak will become the United Kingdom\u2019s new prime minister after winning a Tory\u2019s party leadership contest triggered by the dramatic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/10\/20\/uk-prime-minister-liz-truss-resigns\">resignation of Liz Truss<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sunak\u2019s win on Monday came days after Truss\u2019s resignation following her disastrous tax cuts plans and policy U-turns plunged the markets into chaos. The unprecedented economic crisis drew a rare intervention from the Bank of England.<\/p>\n<p>Sunak\u2019s only challenger, Penny Mordaunt, leader of the House of Commons and former defence minister, was reportedly backed by 30 MPs compared with nearly 150 supporting Sunak.<\/p>\n<p>Sunak and Mordaunt had lost to Truss in an earlier race to appoint a new leader after then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson was forced to announce his resignation in July following a wave of scandals linked to parties entertained during the coronavirus lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>While there were rumours over a Johnson\u2019s comeback over the weekend, he pulled out of the contest on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>He said late on Sunday that he had secured the backing of 102 legislators and could have been \u201cback in Downing Street\u201d, but that he had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/10\/23\/rishi-sunak-boris-johnson-hold-talks-as-race-to-lead-uk-heats-up\">failed to persuade<\/a>\u00a0either Sunak or the other contender, Mordaunt, to come together \u201cin the national interest\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe I have much to offer but I am afraid that this is simply not the right time,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source &#8211; Al Jazeera<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunak wins Conservative Party leadership contest days after the dramatic resignation of Liz Truss as prime minister. Conservative politician Rishi Sunak will become the United Kingdom\u2019s new prime minister after winning a Tory\u2019s party leadership contest triggered by the dramatic resignation of Liz Truss. Sunak\u2019s win on Monday came days after Truss\u2019s resignation following her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":108942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-world-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rishi Sunak wins race to become the UK\u2019s new Prime Minister - TimesKuwait<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/timeskuwait.com\/news\/rishi-sunak-wins-race-to-become-the-uks-new-prime-minister\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rishi Sunak wins race to become the UK\u2019s new Prime Minister - TimesKuwait\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sunak wins Conservative Party leadership contest days after the dramatic resignation of Liz Truss as prime minister. 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