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Here are the main contenders potentially in the running to succeed UK Prime Minister Liz Truss, after she announced her resignation on Thursday:
Rishi Sunak
Truss easily beat the former chancellor of the exchequer in this summer’s Tory leadership contest, winning party members over with promises to slash taxes and regulations without curbing government spending. Rishi Sunak
Sunak, 42, had warned that her plans to fund the proposals through extra borrowing were reckless and could worsen decades-high inflation as well as market confidence in the UK.
Now that he has been proved right, Sunak was installed by bookmakers as the early favourite following Truss’s dramatic announcement.
He garnered the support of the largest number of Tory lawmakers in successive rounds of voting, before party members installed Truss.
A new YouGov poll on Tuesday found he has the best ratings of the touted alternatives to Truss — albeit still with an overall net favourability rating of -18…
