Sunak is next PM as Mordaunt drops out of Tory leadership race
- Rishi Sunak will be the UK's next prime minister after Penny Mordaunt dropped out of the Tory leadership race in the final minutes before nominations closed
- Sunak will succeed Liz Truss seven weeks after she defeated him in the previous Tory contest
- The ex-chancellor gained the support of well over half of Tory MPs, with Mordaunt struggling to reach the threshold of 100 MPs to get on the ballot
- He will become the UK's first British Asian PM and at 42, the youngest in more than a century
- Labour have reiterated their call for a general election, as have the Scottish National Party and the Liberal Democrats
