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Rishi Sunak, the former British Treasury chief who won the race to be leader of the Conservative Party and is likely to become the country’s next prime minister, is getting cheers from an unlikely place: India, its former colony

When Rishi Sunak lost to Liz Truss in the first Conservative Party leadership race of 2022, few were surprised. Many of the people given the chance to choose between the two candidates blamed Sunak for Boris Johnson’s downfall. They also preferred Truss’s “optimistic” economic policies to Sunak’s sombre assessment of…

London (AFP) - Britain's incoming prime minister Rishi Sunak vowed Monday to bring "stability and unity" at a time of economic crisis, after he was named the beleaguered Conservatives' new leader. 

The former chancellor becomes the new Tory leader after Penny Mordaunt failed to win the backing of MPs.

He ended up as the only candidate in the Conservative leadership race

He will become the UK’s first Hindu PM after his rival failed to get the support of 100 colleagues.

London (AFP) - Former finance minister Rishi Sunak on Monday won the battle for leader of Britain's Conservative party and will become the country's first prime minister of colour.

Elected for the first time to parliament in 2015, Rishi Sunak became Britain's youngest prime minister in more than 200 years on Monday, tasked with steering the country through an economic crisis and mounting anger among some voters.

Former chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak will become Britain's third prime minister in three months, and the first of Indian heritage after winning the Conservative Party's leadership.