Triumph has finally come for 42-year-old Rishi Sunak as he was announced as the new Prime Minister for the United Kingdom as the former Prime Minister Boris Johnson opted on a decision late Sunday to abandon his political comeback bid and step down from the race.
This is also coming just weeks after he had lost out to Liz Truss who had been helping to lead the ruling Tories, and Sunak, therefore, pulled off a stunning reversal in fortunes.
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Addressing members of his party behind closed doors after the announcement, Sunak reportedly received a rapturous reception.
Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon, whose nationalist government in Edinburgh wants to hold an independence referendum next year, was among the first to congratulate Sunak.
“I wish him well… notwithstanding our political differences,” she said.
“That he becomes the first British Asian — indeed the first from any minority ethnic background — to become PM is a genuinely significant moment,” she said.
The contest, triggered by outgoing leader Truss’s resignation on Thursday, had required candidates to secure the support of at least 100 Conservative MPs by 2:00 pm (1300 GMT) on Monday.
In a previous report, in a shocking turn of events, the newly elected United Kingdom Prime Minister, Liz Truss has tendered in her resignation as the United Kingdom prime minister in a controversial statement which she had made outside Downing Street.
She had given her reasons as being that she would not be able to deliver the mandate with which she was elected and had notified the King that she was resigning as the Tory leader.
She also revealed that there will be a Conservative leadership election which would be completed within the next week.
It would also be coming after she had met the chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbench MPs as more Tories had called for her to quit.
Truss’s premiership came under renewed pressure after the home secretary had resigned and a chaotic vote on fracking and there was fury on Wednesday evening around the vote and the methods used to get MPs to vote with the government.