Former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak is strong favorite to become Britain’s next prime minister within hours or days, after former leader Boris Johnson dropped out of the Conservative Party leadership contest Former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak is strong favorite to become Britain’s next prime minister within hours or days, after former leader Boris Johnson dropped … Read more
Penny Mordaunt has held nine ministerial positions in eight government departments, including three cabinet posts. Yet until this summer’s Conservative leadership contest, when she came third, she was an unfamiliar figure to most of the British public. Now she is making another bid to become prime minister, touting her “fresh face” as a virtue that … Read more
British minister Penny Mordaunt on Friday launched her bid to replace Liz Truss as prime minister, becoming the first Conservative lawmaker to announce they are running. Mordaunt, 49, has navigated the tenures of the four prime ministers she has served under, keeping her distance from Boris Johnson’s scandal-ridden time in power and staying in cabinet … Read more
The former Chancellor has the backing of 57 MPs. The former Chancellor has the backing of 57 MPs. The morning after British Prime Minister Liz Truss announced that her brief spell in Downing Street would come to an end, former Chancellor Rishi Sunak, who battled Ms. Truss for the post in August, appeared to lead … Read more
Liz Truss is set to go head-to-head with Rishi Sunak to become Britain’s next prime minister after Penny Mordaunt was knocked out of the Conservative leadership race. Sunak, the former chancellor, came top in the fifth round of voting by Tory MPs at Westminster with 137 votes, followed by Truss, the serving foreign secretary, with … Read more
UK trade minister Penny Mordaunt has launched a scathing attack on her rivals for the Conservative leadership, as Tory MPs prepare for Wednesday’s final round of voting to narrow the contest to a shortlist of two. Mordaunt’s campaign claimed that foreign secretary Liz Truss could not win a general election and that if she became … Read more
Liz Truss, foreign secretary, on Tuesday narrowed the gap with trade minister Penny Mordaunt as they battled to join former chancellor Rishi Sunak in the final stage of the race to be the next Conservative party leader. In the latest round of voting by 358 Tory MPs on Monday, Sunak retained his position as the … Read more