UK: Sunak leads first round of voting to replace Johnson - Six candidates, including former finance minister Rishi Sunak, are now in the running to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader. Voting will continue next week until only two are left
as head of the party and thus the country’s leader.
Finance Minister Nadhim Zahawi and former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt were eliminated from the race after they failed to reach the threshold of 30 votes in the secret ballot. The first vote comes after Johnson’s final session of prime minister’s questions, in which the government refused to allow debate time for a no-confidence motion tabled by the opposition Labour party — a move some have criticised as unconstitutional.Sunak, whose resignation last week came as a surprising prelude to events that eventually sawHe scored 88 votes in Tuesday’s vote, ahead of Junior Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt with 67 votes and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss with 50.
Sunak promised to confront the difficult economic backdrop with “honesty, seriousness and determination”, rather than piling the burden on future generations.
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