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Ready for Rishi? Sunak launches leadership bid

9 July 2022

1:50 AM

9 July 2022

1:50 AM

Rishi Sunak has this afternoon confirmed that he is running to be the next leader of the Conservative party. In a launch video published on social media, the former chancellor begins by telling the story of his grandmother coming to the UK from East Africa and starting a life here as he declares that ‘family is everything’ to him.

I’m standing to be the next leader of the Conservative Party and your Prime Minister.

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