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PORTRAIT. After the abandonment of his rivals, Boris Johnson then Penny Mordaunt, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer will be appointed Prime Minister.
From our UK correspondent, Marc Roche
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Lhe suspense after the announcement of the withdrawal of Liz Truss lasted only a few days. Rishi Sunak will succeed, at 10 Downing Street, the one who beat him a few months ago in a previous race for the post of Prime Minister. Aged 42, the grandson of immigrants of Indian origin, the former banker will become the first non-white to lead the British government. The son of a general practitioner and a pharmacist from Southampton (south of England), he was always a young man in a hurry. Molded from the famed private boarding school in Winchester, Oxford and Stanford Business School, the themed fort is calm and thoughtful.
“This exceptional, energetic, intelligent, open, rational and disciplined being will make an excellent Prime Minister,” said former Tory party leader Wi…
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