Truss wins UK cabinet backing as voting begins in PM contest
Truss’s lagging rival Rishi Sunak vied to make up lost ground with a plan for future tax cuts.
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Sunak widens lead in race to become UK PM after party vote
Sunak won the support of 115 Tory lawmakers, followed by Penny Mordaunt on 82 votes, Liz Truss on 71, Kemi Badenoch on 58 and Tom Tugendhat on 31, who drops out as the last-placed candidate, the party announced.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to step down: reports
The Conservative leader late on Wednesday defiantly responded to calls from his loyalists and cabinet colleagues to step down by sacking minister and former top ally Michael Gove.
The Communities Secretary was reportedly the first to tell him that he must resign for the good of the Tory party and country, with a source close to Johnson telling the BBC that Gove was “a snake”.
