23 October 2022 at 11:38 Sunak confirms that he is running as a candidate Rishi Sunak announces that he is running as a candidate to become the new Tory leader and British Prime Minister. Whoever secures the leadership position will also become the new Prime Minister after Liz Truss, who announced her resignation on Thursday. – Great Britain is a great country, but we are facing a deep economic crisis, he writes, among other things, on Twitter. – That is why I am standing as a candidate for leadership and your next prime minister. – I want to fix our economy, unite our party and work for this country. Sunak made it to the final round when the party elected a new leader after Boris Johnson this summer, but he lost to Truss, who got barely six weeks as prime minister. He was the first of the candidates to secure the 100 necessary signatures needed to stand as prime minister candidate.
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