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U.K. Live Updates: Rishi Sunak Is Poised to Become Next Prime Minister
The New York Times ^ | 2022-10-24 | Mark Landler

Posted on 10/24/2022 5:40:26 AM PDT by Salman

LONDON — Rishi Sunak, the former chancellor of the Exchequer, was poised to become Britain’s next prime minister as soon as Monday, after Boris Johnson pulled out of the race to succeed Liz Truss on Sunday evening. If Mr. Sunak wins, he will become the first person of color, the first person of Indian heritage and the first person of Hindu faith to lead Britain.

Mr. Sunak, who lost a leadership contest to Ms. Truss this summer, is the clear front-runner, with the public backing of 192 Conservative lawmakers as of Monday afternoon, according to the BBC. That number represents more than half of Conservative members of parliament. Mr. Sunak’s only remaining rival, Penny Mordaunt, had the public backing of 27 lawmakers.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: borisjohnson; hindu; indian; liztruss; marklandler; pennymordaunt; rishi; rishisunak; suellabraverman; sunak; tories; unitedkingdom
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Might be OK. At least they dodged the Muslim bullet this time.
1 posted on 10/24/2022 5:40:26 AM PDT by Salman
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“...he will become the first person of color, the first person of Indian heritage and the first person of Hindu faith to lead Britain....”

No. One. Cares.


2 posted on 10/24/2022 5:42:53 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Salman

How about a vote? They just keep installing leader after leader who doesn’t have a mandate from the people.


3 posted on 10/24/2022 5:43:11 AM PDT by wiseprince (Me,)
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To: Salman

Communist or Socialist?


4 posted on 10/24/2022 5:50:51 AM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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Rishi Sunak.....Now there’s a real British sounding name...


5 posted on 10/24/2022 5:51:32 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Salman

If Mr. Sunak wins, he will become the first person of color, the first person of Indian heritage...

Interesting, as Indians are caucasians.


6 posted on 10/24/2022 5:52:03 AM PDT by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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Rishi Sunak.....Now there’s a real British sounding name...

Yep, a typical leg-before-wicket English person.

7 posted on 10/24/2022 5:52:25 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Flick Lives

The Pakis will just love that. /s


8 posted on 10/24/2022 5:53:03 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Interesting, as Indians are caucasians.

Have you ever seen any albino Indians? They look exactly like Norwegians.

9 posted on 10/24/2022 5:54:47 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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The Pakis will just love that. /s

To quote Carriage Hill, "No. One. Cares."

10 posted on 10/24/2022 5:56:15 AM PDT by null and void (← Not delusional, just differently realitied...)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Ya sure you betcha, don’t ya know?


11 posted on 10/24/2022 5:57:22 AM PDT by null and void (← Not delusional, just differently realitied...)
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To: Salman

wife had some kind of special tax exempt status but there was such an outcry (and she was getting ready for him to get the PM position) she has voluntarily announced she will forgo that special status on her billion dollar fortune


12 posted on 10/24/2022 6:06:53 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

Tory race to be next PM nears deadline with focus on Mordaunt
Published 30 minutes ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-63370359


13 posted on 10/24/2022 6:07:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: dfwgator

Yes, this will create a “sticky wicket” for sure...


14 posted on 10/24/2022 6:12:29 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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Sunak is more of a globalist than anything else who’ll make sure that all the woke tick boxes are checked. I guess you’d call him a “TINO” (Tory in name only).


15 posted on 10/24/2022 6:18:27 AM PDT by punknpuss
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BINO - British in Name Only


16 posted on 10/24/2022 6:19:56 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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WEF boy


17 posted on 10/24/2022 6:21:09 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Bingo!


18 posted on 10/24/2022 6:41:51 AM PDT by sevlex
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To: Carriage Hill

Well that’s what Britain looks like nowadays.


19 posted on 10/24/2022 6:51:50 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (Come back, President Trump.)
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To: Carriage Hill

The significant Muslim population in the U.K. cares very much.


20 posted on 10/24/2022 6:57:05 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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