“Rishi Sunak elected as Britain’s Prime Minister”
What FACTLY found
Boris Johnson resigned as the Conservative party leader; he is still the Prime Minister of UK till a new PM is elected reportedly by 05 September 2022. There need not necessarily be a general election in UK because, when a Prime Minister resigns, there isn’t automatically a general election. In the race to become the leader of the Conservative party and the next Prime Minister, eight candidates are in the fray. Indian-origin British MP Rishi Sunak is one of them. Rishi Sunak’s Father-in-law i...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 12 July 2022. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 13 July 2022, 1 day later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
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