Former British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak managed to garner the minimum number of votes needed to run for the leadership of the Conservative Party after the resignation of Prime Minister Liz Terrace, less than 44 days.
“I am honored to be the 100th Conservative MP to support Rishi,” Tobias Ellwood, the leading Conservative MP in the House of Commons, tweeted.
Sunak will automatically become leader of the Conservative Party and prime minister if his rivals Benny Mordaunt and Boris Johnson fail to get 100 nominations from their Conservative counterparts in Parliament. And parliamentary relations minister Penny Mordaunt announced her candidacy to succeed Teress yesterday, and the conjecture of Johnson’s return to power has begun to solidify, and he is gaining more support within the Conservative Party.
Mordaunt, who did not make it to the second round of the previous ballot to choose Johnson’s successor, said her candidacy was aimed at achieving “a new beginning, a united party and leadership in the national interest.”
