‘Who voted for you?’: what the papers say as Rishi Sunak prepares to become prime minister

The UK newspaper front pages lay out the difficult path ahead for the incoming PM, and question the validity of his victory

Rishi Sunak's victory in the Tory leadership contest and his imminent accession to the top of British politics leads the front page of every major newspaper in the UK on Tuesday.

The Guardian headlines Unite or die - Sunak's warning to Tory MPs". Under a picture of Sunak receiving a heroes welcome at the Conservative head office in London, the paper's deputy political editor reports that he told MPs he would put an end to the Conservative psychodrama" and prioritise policies not personalities'".