Rishi Sunak outside his home in London, following the resignation of Liz Truss as Prime Minister. Picture date: Friday October 21, 2022. (Photo by Beresford Hodge/PA Images via Getty Images)
Britain’s former Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister) Rishi Sunak, best known for signing the cheques on the mega-money lockdown policies of the Covid era and pushing the national tax burden to the highest levels in decades, will be the next Prime Minister after the only other serious challenger dropped out at the last minute. The officers of the 1922 Committee met to scrutinise candidate applications Monday lunchtime, having set the bar to entry unusually high to
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