New Tory leader Rishi Sunak says party facing ‘existential threat’
by Jessica Elgot, Peter Walker and Rowena Mason from World news | The Guardian on (#6527Q)
Incoming prime minister says Tories must unite or die' and rules out early general election
Rishi Sunak, the incoming prime minister, has told MPs that the Conservative party is facing an existential threat", in his first address to them on becoming party leader, after Penny Mordaunt failed to get 100 nominations to reach the threshold to trigger a ballot.
In his speech, given behind closed doors to MPs, Sunak said the party should unite or die" and vowed he would return the party to the values of its 2019 manifesto, which helped win the party an 80-seat majority.
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