10 things you need to know today: October 25, 2022

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1. Rishi Sunak to be U.K.'s new prime minister

Former U.K. finance minister Rishi Sunak won the Conservative Party's leadership contest on Monday and will become Britain's next prime minister Tuesday. Sunak, who is of Indian descent, will be the first person of color to lead a British government. He breezed to victory after his last remaining rival, Penny Mordaunt, dropped out. Sunak, 42, will be the United Kingdom's third prime minister in seven weeks. He will have to unite a party reeling from scandals that forced Boris Johnson to resign two months ago and the bungled tax plan that undid Liz Truss' government. The Labour Party, which leads the battered Tories by 30 percentage points in polls, is calling for a new general election as the country struggles through a cost-of-living crisis.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.