Rishi Sunak has entered Downing Street as the UK’s new prime minister after securing the support of the vast majority of the Conservative parliamentary party to take the reins after the disastrous tenure of Liz Truss.
Mr Sunak was Boris Johnson’s chancellor of the exchequer throughout the Covid-19 pandemic and had looked primed to take over at several points over the course of this year as a result of his boss’s premiership being almost permanently dogged by scandal, from Wallpapergate to Partygate to the Chris Pincher affair.
