Rishi Sunak will become Britain’s 57th prime minister after Penny Mordaunt dropped out of the race to succeed Liz Truss.
Sunak, 42, urged his party to “unite or die” after becoming the only candidate to officially win the backing of 100 Tory MPs.
He was endorsed by a string of cabinet ministers who had previously backed Boris Johnson. The Conservatives had appeared on course for a showdown between the former prime minister and Sunak, his former chancellor, but Johnson withdrew from the contest last night.
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