Who Will Be The Next UK Prime Minister ?

 

CNN: Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are final candidates in race to succeed Boris Johnson as UK Prime Minister 

London (CNN)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 on Wednesday narrowed down to the final two candidates. 

Johnson resigned as party leader earlier this month after a series of scandals led to dozens of ministerial resignations. Ten Conservatives stood in the contest to replace him, and over five rounds of voting, members of parliament whittled those down to two. 

Sunak won 137 votes and Truss got 113 votes in the final round, while Penny Mordaunt with 105 votes lost out. 

Both of the final two candidates took to Twitter to comment on the result.  

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Update #1: Sunak, Truss in runoff to replace Boris Johnson as UK leader (AP)  

Update #2: Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss advance to runoff to succeed Boris Johnson (Axios)  

WNU Editor: I feel for the people in the UK. Nothing is going to change. 

As to who will be the next Prime Minister? It looks like it will be Liz Truss .... Tory leadership race live: Liz Truss extends lead over Rishi Sunak among Tory members in race to be PM, poll reveals (SKY News).