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Conservative party leadership contender Boris Johnson arrives at his office in Westminster, London. Britain will learn who its next prime minister will be as the result of a Tory leadership contest dominated by Boris Johnson is announced. IMAGES of Boris Johnson arriving at his office
Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the Conservative Party's backbench 1922 Committee, announces that Rishi Sunak and Liza Truss have made it to the final ballot of Conservative members to decide who will replace Boris Johnson as the next party leader and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with Penny Mordaunt knocked out. Sunak led the last of five ballots of Tory lawmakers, winning 137 votes, ahead of Truss on 113, while junior trade minister Penny Mordaunt was eliminated after getting 105 votes. IMAGES
Tom Tugendhat drops out of the race to become Britain's next prime minister as former finance minister Rishi Sunak widens his lead in the latest round of voting by Conservative MPs. SOUNDBITE
British ministers arrive at 10 Downing Street for a cabinet meeting the day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson won a no-confidence vote. 211 Tory party lawmakers supported Johnson and 148 voted against him. IMAGES
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wins a no-confidence vote triggered by his Conservative MPs and will stay on as leader, but the scale of the rebellion leaves his future in doubt. SOUNDBITE
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leaves 10 Downing Street as a day of high-profile political events gets under way. Former PM Boris Johnson faces a grilling from a parliamentary committee about whether he misled Parliament on the issue of parties inside 10 Downing Street during the Covid pandemic. Also on the agenda is a vote on Sunak's post-Brexit deal for Northern Ireland -- which Johnson has pledged to vote against. Before that, Sunak faces Prime Minister's Questions. IMAGES