Rishi Sunak And Liz Truss Head To Head Final Battle For UK PM Race

(The Quiver): After Bojo stepped down from UK PM chair, a fresh new PM will be presiding over.Eleven candidates originally put their names forward, but in a fifth and final ballot of Conservative lawmakers, the junior trade minister Penny Mordaunt was eliminated.Indian-origin MP Rishi Sunak and foreign secretary Liz Truss have emerged as the top two contenders for the UK PM post.

Rishi Sunak and foreign secretary Liz Truss are giving each other a top fight to get UK PM post. Sunak secured 137 votes in the last round of voting while Liz Truss is known to have secured 113 votes in the race to replace Boris Johnson as British prime minister and leader of the Conservative party.

Sunak, the former foreign minister, has led in all rounds of the voting among Conservative lawmakers, but it is Truss, who seems to have gained the advantage so far among the around 200,000 members of the governing party, who will ultimately choose the winner.

After the fourth round of voting, Sunak enjoyed the support of 118 Tory MPs. But Davis alleged that Sunak’s team “relocated” votes to foreign secretary Liz Truss in a bid to secure her victory. Notably, on Wednesday, 27 lawmakers voted for her with Sunak managing to secure only 19 more votes.