Rishi Sunak has been named the Conservative Party’s new leader unopposed and will become the UK’s first prime minister of Asian descent.
It means the Tories have now delivered the UK three female prime ministers and the country’s first non-Anglo leader, as well as it’s first and only Jewish leader in Benjamin Disraeli.
Sir Graham Brady announced the result to MPs in the Commons.
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It is a monumental turnaround for the former chancellor who quit Boris Johnson’s cabinet in July and launched a leadership bid but lost to his rival Liz Truss in a vote of party members.
Candidates had until 2pm local time to provide nominations from a minimum 100 MPs.
Sunak was the only candidate to reach the threshold, having secured the public backing of close to 200 of the 357 MPs.
Here are 8 points on Rishi Sunak- the next UK PM:
1. Rishi Sunak was born in UK’s Southampton area to an Indian family. He is the son of a pharmacist mother and a National Health Service (NHS) general practitioner father.
2. Rishi Sunak’s grandparents are from Punjab.
3. He is an Oxford University and Stanford graduate and is married to Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy’s daughter Akshata Murty.
4. The couple tied the knot in 2009 and has two daughters, Anoushka and Krishna.
5. He became a member of Parliament (MP) in 2015 after he got elected from Richmond, Yorkshire.
6. In February 2020, he was designated as the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the most important UK Cabinet post.
7. Rishi Sunak was widely appreciated for his economic package for employees and businesses during the Covid pandemic.
8. He ran for the UK PM post against Liz Truss.
