Victory may look unlikely but, as the last ten years of elections have often showed, polls can be wrong and experts can be confounded. That said, few in Sunak’s party believe his timing is anything other than an attempt to lose less badly.
RISHI Sunak flew to Ukraine a few days ago to sign an agreement for ‘security co-operation’ and ‘a hundred-year partnership’. This is in a context where the former head of the British Army is warning that our armed forces are so shrunken that we invite a 1930s-style disaster.
Kamala Harris’s world, means heavily regulating all AI systems to bring them in line with the Democratic Party’s ultra-progressive and hyper-politically correct values.
Sunak is seen as an emblem of immigrant success. Born in Southampton in 1980 to parents of Indian descent (his father a GP, his mother a pharmacist) he attended a private prep school, Winchester public school (where he was head boy), Oxford and Stanford (as a Fulbright Scholar).
The cabinet gets talked about a lot – whether it’s drama at weekly meetings or big “reshuffles”. Here’s a very quick guide to what it is if you don’t follow politics.
Rishi Sunak will be the UK’s next prime minister after winning the Conservative Party leadership contest. Sunak will become the UK’s first British Asian PM and at 42, the youngest leader in more than two centuries
Johnson withdraws from contest
Sunak officially declares he will run
First ballot to be held on Monday
Sunak clearly leading other contender Mordaunt
Boris Johnson returned to Britain from holiday on Saturday to consider an audacious bid for a second term as prime minister in a race that could pit him against his former finance minister whose resignation in July helped drive him out of office.
Boris Johnson lands back in London after his holiday in the Caribbean, as speculation grows that he will also run
Would-be candidates need at least 100 nominations from fellow Tory MPs to get on the ballot, meaning no more than three of them will be able to stand because there are 357 Tory MPs.
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