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The foreign secretary has opened up a commanding lead over the former Chancellor as the long campaign gets underway Yesterday, Conservative MPs voted to send both Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss through to the final stage of the party’s leadership contest. One of them will now be selected to replace Boris Johnson by the party membership in a ballot running from 4 August until early September. Earlier this week, our figures suggested that Truss would beat Sunak in a hypothetical head-to-head by 19 points. Now, with the final two announced and the summer campaign just beginning, a new YouGov poll...

Former British finance minister Rishi Sunak won the most votes in the second round of voting to succeed Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative Party and prime minister, as one candidate was eliminated.

British former finance minister Rishi Sunak has announced he is running to replace Boris Johnson, three days after helping to launch the cascade of resignations that brought the prime minister down. Johnson announced on Thursday that he would stand down as prime minister after a mass rebellion in his Conservative Party, triggered by the latest in a series of scandals that had fatally undermined public trust. "Someone has to grip this moment and make the right decisions. That’s why I’m standing to be the next leader of the Conservative Party and your prime minister,” Sunak said in a video posted...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid have resigned from government saying they no longer have confidence in Boris Johnson to lead the country. Mr Sunak said the public expected government to be conducted "properly, competently and seriously". Mr Javid echoed this in his resignation letter, saying the government was not "acting in the national interest". The resignations came minutes after PM sought to draw a line under a row about MP Chris Pincher, who is facing sexual misconduct allegations. Mr Johnson admitted he had made a "bad mistake" in appointing Mr Pincher to the role of deputy chief...