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Going head-to-head in the race for Prime Minister are current Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and former Chancellor Rishi Sunak. Britain’s new Prime Minister will be announced in Westminster at 12.30pm on Monday, September 5, 2022. The winner of the vote should then become PM the next day on September 6.

British Prime Ministerial hopeful Rishi Sunak visited a temple on the occasion of Janmashtami, along with his wife Akshata Murthy. Krishna Janmashtami is a Hindu festival that celebrates the birth of Lord Krishna. Devotees dress up idols and visit temples to mark the occasion, a day of special reverence for Hindus.

Sunak, who won the first two rounds of voting by Tory MPs, will take part in a series of televised debates with his remaining opponents, Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, former minister Kemi Badenoch, and Tory backbencher Tom Tugendhat, over the weekend.

Subsequent voting will be held among Conservative MPs, with the contender with the fewest votes eliminated each time, to narrow the field to a final two by July 21.  The next leader will subsequently be picked from those two by the country's 200,000 Conservative party members and revealed on September 5.

Grant Shapps, an experienced MP who initially served in the cabinet under former Prime Minister David Cameron in 2010 but is not currently a favourite in the polls to replace Johnson, has pledged to deliver "strategic" and "sober" governance.

England is in political turmoil after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his intention to resign. But, do you remember that a petition to make Sam Allardyce the PM was once rejected?

Boris Johnson announced his resignation from the post of UK PM on Thursday, ending his scandal-plagued reign in less than three years. Johnson had no option but to resign after many high-profile members of his cabinet resigned in protest this week over his treatment of government employees' misconduct charges. Take a look at the scandals that bought him down.

In his address to the country, Johnson stated that he will continue as Prime Minister until a new leader is nominated and that he is quite pleased of his accomplishments. While announcing his decision, he said it is clearly the will of the parliamentary party that there should be a new leader, and a new PM.

Johnson is facing a big vote of no confidence, with Cabinet colleagues and numerous Conservative MPs rushing to express their dissatisfaction with his leadership. Many people feel that the Prime Minister, who survived a vote of no-confidence last month, will not survive another if it occurs again.

Johnson had been abandoned by all but a few supporters after days of fighting for his position. It was a far cry from when Johnson, 58, came to office in 2019 with a big majority, gaining votes in sections of the country that had never before backed his Conservative Party.