Everyone knew the old white men club that is the British Conservative party would never elect a brown man to be PM, so they rigged it to ensure the Conservative party members didn’t even get to vote.
Liz wannabe-Lettuce Truss was elected by 70k, which is less than 50% of the conservatives party members.
Rishi Jai Hind Sunak is PM after 100 conservative MPs voted for him. This is the standards for who becomes leader in the birthplace of modern democracy.
It’s only slightly less farcical than it BoJo got back into power after pulling all his strings to help Truss into office after him.
BoJo pulled out because even he could see that the current premiership is a poison chalice with zero mandate without an immediate snap election, which the conservatives would be crushed in. So he backed away to let his biggest internal rival kamikaze his career on this brief period in charge while he waits for Labour to come into power so he can blame them for not magically fixing everything the conservatives broke and trashed in one term, and use blaming labour as the launch pad for his next run at office.
