By Kamsi Anayo with Agency news
Rishi Sunak has been elected as the new leader of the Conservative Party and will now be named the United Kingdom prime minister.
He was announced as the new leader of the UK in a tweet on the Conservatives Twitter handle on Monday.
The former Prime Minister, Liz Truss had announced her resignation as prime minister after six weeks in office on October 20.
She had given the hint that there would be a leadership election within a week, l
Ms Truss’ brief stint as leader involved a mini-Budget that spooked the market, the sacking of her close ally and chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, the resignation of home secretary Suella Braverman and chaos in Westminster around a confidence vote where there were allegations of senior Tories manhandling and bullying colleagues.
In the heat of turbulence that preceded her exist from the coveted position, she had told the UK Parliament on October 19, she is a “fighter not a quitter.”
Conservative MP Simon Hoare said Liz Truss only had 12 hours to save her premiership while Lord David Frost, a former Brexit minister who backed Truss for PM, called for her to go in addition to more than a dozen MPs.