New Delhi: Rishi Sunak on Monday scripted history after it was confirmed that he will become the UK’s first British Indian prime minister as well the first Hindu premier.
He will also be the country’s youngest PM in nearly 200 years. The 42-year-old former UK finance minister was comfortably in the lead, having secured the public backing of over half the 357 Tory MPs which was way above the 100 minimum required to make the shortlist.
Sunak had a clear path to victory after his competitors Penny Mordaunt and Boris Johnson withdrew from the Conservative Party leadership race.
Mordaunt, the last rival left after ex-PM Johnson dramatically pulled out on Sunday, failed to secure the necessary 100 nominations from her fellow MPs.
“Rishi Sunak is therefore elected as leader of the Conservative party,” senior backbencher Graham Brady said, as Mordaunt pledged her “full support” for Sunak.
42-year-old Sunak who won the leadership contest on the day of Diwali will succeed Liz Truss who has become the country’s shortest-serving prime minister.
Sunak who had lost the Conservative Party leadership race to Truss last month got another shot at scripting history as Truss battled criticism over her economic policies.
Sunak has vowed to fix the British economy.
A practicing Hindu, Sunak took his oath as an MP at the House of Commons on the Bhagavad Gita. He is married to Akshata Murthy, the daughter of Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy.
With inputs from agencies
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