Rishi Sunak

Indian-origin Rishi Sunak has won the fourth round of voting in the race to become the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

The process will end with convincing the Tory party membership base, estimated at around 160,000 voters. Rishi Sunak, whose resignation as finance minister helped trigger Boris Johnson's downfall, said he would implement harsher sentences for criminals who fail to attend court. Kemi Badenoch trailed on 59 votes and was, therefore, eliminated from the contest.

The battle to clinch the leadership of the UK's Conservative Party is getting tougher for former Chancellor Rishi Sunak.

Former UK Finance Minister Rishi Sunak won the latest round in the contest to replace British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday.

UK News: Rishi Sunak topped another round of voting on Tuesday to edge even closer to his place as one of two candidates who will go head-to-head to be ...

He increased his tally from Monday's 115, while Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt got 92 votes and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss 86 votes leaving the race to clinch second place still open. Mordaunt had headed the same poll previously. The final two candidates will be known after a fifth round of voting on Wednesday, at the end of which the race will be taken over by the Conservative Party headquarters to organise hustings in different parts of the UK.

BRITAIN'S former finance minister Rishi Sunak again topped the latest vote by Conservative MPs to choose a new prime minister, as another candidate was ...

Rishi Sunak, the frontrunner for the Conservative leadership, was the director of a free school with close links to rightwing libertarian founders, which was ...

The school paid the charity £14,400 in 2019 for an event – but the report criticised the potential conflict of interest and said there “was no evidence to show how the connections, and potential conflict, were managed”. Furedi told the Guardian he had been invited to discuss pedagogic matters. A source close to Sunak said he had not been involved in the invitation.

British Indian former Chancellor Rishi Sunak received 118 votes in the fourth round of voting by his party colleagues, just shy of the 120-mark.

Mr Sunak lost in head to head contests with Ms Truss, Ms Mordaunt and Ms Badenoch in a YouGov poll released on Tuesday. One of the 358 Tory MPs, Tobias Ellwood, was suspended from the parliamentary party after he missed a vote of confidence in Boris Johnson’s government on Monday, due to travel. Mr Sunak, 42, won 118 votes, a gain of three since the third round of voting on Monday night.

Former treasury chief is seen as steady hand at time of economic upheaval, but could struggle to convince Conservative Party base.

- TigerDirect:TigerDirect coupon code - 10% off first order You may cancel your subscription at anytime by calling Customer Service. Those members vote to choose the next prime minister, with a winner announced on Sept. 5.

Conservative MPs vote out Kemi Badenoch as Liz Truss and Penny Mordaunt gain on frontrunner Rishi Sunak.

The members will vote in a postal ballot with the result due September 5. “We are so nearly across the finish line. Mordaunt reached 92, while Truss saw a 15-vote increase for 86 votes in total.

Kemi Badenoch at greatest risk of dropping out as latest round of voting will reduce candidates to final three.

Liz Truss and Penny Mordaunt are now the two strongest candidates in the contest to be the second person on the final ballot. It is not inevitable - she has defied expectations already - but she remains 13 votes behind Truss, and may struggle to get much of the Tugendhat vote. He is now on 115 votes and once a candidate gets 120 (just over a third of the total), it is mathematically impossible for two other candidates to get more votes. But later in the day she had an apparent change of heart and told Talk TV that her commitment to the 2050 date was not absolute. Rishi Sunak, the former chancellor, is now all but certain to be one of the two candidates on the final ballot for Conservative party members. Badenoch, the former equalities minister, is the only candidate still in the race who has not served in cabinet. As Steven Swinford reports, the decision means Ellwood will not be able to vote in parliamentary leadership ballot until the whip is restored. Ellwood, who was one of the Tories most critical of Boris Johnson, did not have permission to be away. We live in an increasingly dangerous world where the threat level is higher than a decade ago, and we need a stronger deterrent to face down those threats and ensure Britain leads on the global stage. Who can doubt that we were right to be the first major economy to go for net zero? Boris Johnson has a majority of 111 in the vote last night. But the whip is likely to be restored by the next Tory leader well before any election takes place.

The British Indian former Chancellor received 118 votes in the fourth round of voting by his party colleagues.

More subscription to our online content can only help us achieve the goals of offering you even better and more relevant content. As we battle the economic impact of the pandemic, we need your support even more, so that we can continue to offer you more quality content. The 42-year-old leader increased his tally from Monday's 115, while Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt got 92 votes and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss 86 votes leaving the race to clinch second place still open.