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Rishi Sunak to become next UK prime minister
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Sunak will succeed Liz Truss seven weeks after she defeated him in the previous Tory contest.
The ex-chancellor gained the support of well over half of Tory MPs, with Mordaunt struggling to reach the threshold of 100 MPs to get on the ballot.
He will become the UK’s first British Asian PM and at 42, the youngest in more than a century.
Labour have reiterated their call for a general election, as have the Scottish National Party and the Liberal Democrats.
She entered the room to a rapturous banging of fists on desks — which in Tory MP tradition is a round of applause.
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