Rishi Sunak

Boris Johnson will be succeeded as prime minister of the United Kingdom by either Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss after the Conservative Party leadership race was ...

Opposition leaders would be quick to remind Sunak that he was fined at the same Partygate event as Johnson. And as soon as the new leader takes over, the opposition Labour Party will be only too willing to remind whoever succeeds Johnson that they were part of that government. Sunak has been considered the frontrunner for a long time. The best known scandal was "Partygate" in which Johnson and several political allies -- including Sunak -- were fined by police for breaching the government's own Covid-19 restrictions. And frankly, that's enough to be going on with. I'm ready to hit the ground running from day one."

LONDON — Britain's Conservative Party chose former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss — a fiscal moderate and a low-tax crusader ...

The campaign has already exposed deep divisions in the Conservative Party at the end of Johnson's scandal-tarnished three-year reign. Johnson did not attend any government emergency meetings about the heat wave that brought record temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) to Britain this week. He finally quit after one scandal too many — appointing a politician accused of sexual misconduct — drove his ministers to resign en masse. Johnson allies have been accused of lobbying against Sunak, whose resignation helped bring the prime minister down, and in favor of Truss, who remained loyal. The winner of the party leadership vote will be announced Sept. 5 and will automatically become Britain's next prime minister. The evidence shows that's Rishi."

Former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak is one of two finalists in the race to replace Boris Johnson as Britain's prime minister.

He has depicted himself as the candidate of grown-up decisions and fiscal probity, calling rivals’ tax-cutting plans reckless and vowing to get inflation under control. Sunak also was fined by police, along with Johnson and some 50 others, for attending a party in the prime minister’s office in 2020 that broke coronavirus lockdown rules. He has described how his parents saved to pay for a private education, and he attended Winchester College, one of Britain’s toniest and most expensive boarding schools. His wife is the daughter of the billionaire founder of Indian tech giant Infosys, and the couple is worth 730 million pounds ($877 million), according to the Sunday Times Rich list. Sunak was cleared of wrongdoing, but the revelations still hurt. The winner will be announced Sept. 5 and will automatically become Britain's new prime minister.

It is official - Rishi Sunak is now the closest anyone of Indian origin has ever been to take charge as British Prime Minister, after his Conservative Party ...

However, that road is unlikely to be a smooth ride as he sets about to woo an estimated 160,000 Conservative Party voters to cast their postal ballots in his favour. The furlough scheme to protect jobs and several grants for struggling businesses won him praise from all sides of the political spectrum. She met my dad, an NHS [National Health Service] GP, and they settled in Southampton. Their story didn't end there, but that is where my story began," he shared, with reference to his general practitioner father Yashvir and mother Usha. "I will get taxes down in this Parliament, but I'm going to do so responsibly. During a live TV debate, he said: "There is commentary about my wife's family's wealth. He has tried to strike a balance between the personal and professional, from the launch of his bid with the story of his Indian family that emigrated from east Africa in the 1960s.

State of play: Sunak (137 votes) finished first in the final vote among Conservative members of Parliament, while Truss (113 votes) leapfrogged trade minister ...

State of play: Trade minister Penny Mordaunt (92 votes) and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss (86 votes) also survived. - Sunak's resignation as chancellor helped start the exodus that ultimately forced Johnson out. The last round of voting on Wednesday will trim the field down to the final two, before the party's roughly 200,000-strong membership selects the next Conservative leader and thus the U.K.'s next prime minister. Conservative members of Parliament held their penultimate vote on the party's next leader on Tuesday, with former finance minister Rishi Sunak (118 votes) finishing first and right-winger Kemi Badenoch (59 votes) eliminated. State of play: Sunak (137 votes) finished first in the final vote among Conservative members of Parliament, while Truss (113 votes) leapfrogged trade minister Penny Mordaunt (105 votes) to reach the runoff round. The race to replace Boris Johnson as U.K. prime minister and Conservative Party leader is down to two: former finance minister Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.

Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will take part in the final run-off of the Conservative leadership contest, ...

Rishi Sunak will claim credit for steering Britain's economy through the COVID-19 crash but must overcome accusations that he is too rich and too willing to ...

"It's about reducing tax from those things that have gone up a lot," Watkins said. No one is saying how they are going to fix things," English said. "No one is going to the public with a plan. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com

Rishi Sunak is currently the favourite in the race to succeed Britain's outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Despite this, the opinion polls suggest that most people think Sunak would make a bad Prime Minister. Currently, Sunak is less popular than [Labour leader Keir] Starmer too,” Elstub said. However, clearly, he is a pragmatist as well,” Elstub said. He describes himself as a ‘fiscal Conservative’ advocating for a small state and low taxes. “He is the candidate of the centre-left of the Tories,” he said. “We know for sure that he is pro-Brexit and anti-immigration. Prior to moving into politics, Sunak studied at Oxford and Stanford before working as an analyst at Goldman Sachs investment bank and then as a hedge fund manager.

LONDON — The next prime minister of Britain and leader of the Conservative Party is now guaranteed to be an ethnic minority or a woman, after Tory lawmakers ...

Was it glib? Was it fitting? Meanwhile, Johnson will be bidding a long goodbye. On Wednesday, he said farewell to the House of Commons — and to his fellow lawmakers who gave him the boot — in a rowdy appearance marking the near-end of his premiership and this weird, shape-shifting Age of Boris. Sunak is a former Goldman Sachs heavy, a former hedge fund manager. He married really rich.

Britain's Conservative Party has chosen Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss as the two finalists in an election to replace Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

The campaign has already exposed deep divisions in the Conservative Party at the end of Johnson’s scandal-tarnished three-year reign. Johnson did not attend any government emergency meetings about the heat wave that brought record temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) to Britain this week. Johnson allies have been accused of lobbying against Sunak, whose resignation helped bring the prime minister down, and in favor of Truss, who remained loyal. He finally quit after one scandal too many — appointing a politician accused of sexual misconduct — drove his ministers to resign en masse. The winner of the party leadership vote will be announced Sept. 5 and will automatically become Britain’s next prime minister. Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt came in third and was eliminated.

LONDON (AP) — Rishi Sunak was seen as Boris Johnson's natural heir, until he turned on the prime minister who put him in charge of Britain's economy.

He has depicted himself as the candidate of grown-up decisions and fiscal probity, calling rivals’ tax-cutting plans reckless and vowing to get inflation under control. Sunak also was fined by police, along with Johnson and more than 80 others, for attending a party in the prime minister’s office in 2020 that broke coronavirus lockdown rules. His wife is the daughter of the billionaire founder of Indian tech giant Infosys, and the couple is worth 730 million pounds ($877 million), according to the Sunday Times Rich list. He has described how his parents saved to pay for a private education, and he attended Winchester College, one of Britain’s toniest and most expensive boarding schools. Sunak was cleared of wrongdoing, but the revelations still hurt. The winner will be announced Sept. 5 and will automatically become Britain’s new prime minister.

Britain's soaring inflation rate, slowing growth and a brutal cost-of-living squeeze will form the backdrop of the contest to replace Boris Johnson as prime ...

As the U.K.'s leadership contest continues, here's everything you need to know about the two remaining candidates Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss.

If Sunak were to win the vote, he would become both the country’s first South Asian leader and the youngest in over 200 years, at the age of 42. Over the next six weeks, a final vote will be cast from a wider ballot of 180,000 rank-and-file Conservative members, with the results announced on September 5. Since then, multiple rounds of voting, heated television debates, and plenty of behind-the-scenes lobbying have seen the pool whittled down to just two candidates, after the final remaining frontrunner, Penny Mordaunt, was eliminated earlier today.

The two candidates in the Conservative leadership race are setting out their pitches to the party members who will choose Boris Johnson's successor. · Rishi ...

Writing in the Daily Mail, Ms Truss said "the central issue at the next election is going to be the economy" and "we have been going in the wrong direction on tax". In the Daily Telegraph, Mr Sunak wrote that he believed in "hard work, family and integrity", adding: "I am running as a Thatcherite, and I will govern as a Thatcherite." Mr Sunak has previously said the tax burden needed to be reduced but not immediately, saying it was a matter of "when not if". She also pledged to bring in an emergency budget to get the changes through quickly and to announce a spending review to "find more efficiencies in government spending". Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Sunak said he would introduce "a set of reforms as radical as the ones Margaret Thatcher drove through in the 1980s". There were gasps at how close the election to make the final two was and a real awareness of the responsibility party members now carry, on behalf of the country.

Former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will battle it out to become Britain's next prime minister after they won the final ...

"We must all now work together to unify our party and focus on the job that needs to be done." "I am in it, to win it," she said to reporters. Whoever triumphs when the result is announced on September 5 will inherit some of the most difficult conditions in Britain in decades.

Bosses at BBC Broadcasting House and Channel 4 Horseferry Road will be examining Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss's record on public broadcasting.

BBC bosses have said they are open to new models and are due to set out the principles of future funding in the coming weeks but losing a guaranteed £3.8B ($4.6B) a year would be a blow. Both broadcasters took a battering from Johnson’s firebrand Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries, via a recently announced review into the future of the BBC licence fee and, more existentially, legislation to privatize Channel 4. Of concern to the BBC, however, Politico reported last week that Sunak has said in private that he would be willing to scrap the £159 ($190) per year annual licence fee and look to alternative funding models when the BBC Charter expires in 2027.

LONDON -- Britain's former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak will battle Foreign Secretary Liz Truss to become the country's next prime minister in the fin.

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Rishi Sunak used a room on the parliamentary estate for his campaign video – which could lead to an inquiry by the Standards Commissioner.

Insider identified the location as the Thatcher Room – likely a signal to would-be supporters that he intends to channel the former prime minister. The former minister said: "Is the [1922 committee] using room 14 to hold the election connected to parliamentary duties? or relevant to the work of Parliament."