After a breathless few days of Tory manoeuvring, Rishi Sunak has been confirmed as the United Kingdom’s next Prime Minister.
Boris Johnson pulled out of the race last night despite claiming he had 100 nominations from MPs required to run.
Penny Mordaunt was the only other remaining hopeful but the Commons Leader failed to make the 100 threshold.
Rishi Sunak will take over from Liz Truss in Downing Street tomorrow facing a monumental task to stabilise the United Kingdom.
Liz Truss will chair a final Cabinet meeting at 9 am before departing No 10 to end her topsy-turvy spell in No 10.
Rishi Sunak will meet the King at Buckingham Palace before giving an address to the country outside No 10 at about 11.35 am, as he prepares to select his Cabinet amid skyrocketing inflation and energy bills.
Today Rishi Sunak pledged to run No 10 with integrity and humility but warned of profound challenges as he prepares to begin his premiership.
Rishi Sunak delivered the stark statement after being confirmed as the next Prime Minister when his sole remaining rival Penny Mordaunt failed to make the threshold of 100 nominations required to trigger a run-off in the Tory leadership battle.
Speaking to a camera at Conservative HQ, Rishi Sunak said the UK was a fantastic country and promised to work day in and day out, but pointed to serious economic issues.
Outgoing Prime Minister Liz Truss is expected to chair the last Cabinet meeting at 9 am tomorrow before making a final address as premier outside No 10. She will then travel to Buckingham Palace to formally offer her resignation to King Charles.
His Majesty will after that appoint Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister, with the incoming premier set to make his own address from Downing Street at about 11.35 am after travelling back from the Palace.
When Boris Johnson chaired his final Cabinet meeting in July, he was given Winston Churchill’s six-volume history of the Second World War following a whip round among his top ministers.
Liz Truss will also be expected to receive a gift from her senior team when she addresses them for the last time tomorrow, despite lasting just 44 days as Prime Minister before resigning.
Rishi Sunak received a rapturous reception when he made a 10-minute private address to MPs at Parliament this afternoon, telling his battalions that leadership contenders Boris Johnson and Penny Mordaunt, as well as his former rival Liz Truss, were all good Conservative colleagues and friends.
But what we actually need is a General Election, and we need it now! But of course, we won’t get one because there are not enough MPs to support it.
It will eventually come, and when it does the Conservatives would have torn themselves apart, and then there will be a giant mess when Labour takes control – and that’s another fine mess they will have got themselves into.
We need an election because this can’t carry on. It’s the people who decide who oversees this country, not the chosen few.
But what we really need is a bloody miracle.
I will never vote for the Conservatives, but unfortunately if when Labour does get in, the Tories would have left such a mess for them to clean up, and by that time our once great country would have finally gone down the pan.
Rishi Sunak will now be our billionaire Prime Minister, he has so much money he wouldn’t even know what poverty was.
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