England prime minister

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: After a That Sunak, 42, entered 10 Downing Street less than two months after losing his first leadership bid to Liz Truss may well be remembered as one of the swiftest political comebacks in British history. But it is hardly a surprise: The former finance minister was the top choice among fellow Conservative Party lawmakers to replace Boris Johnson after the erstwhile Prime Minister was toppled from power in July. (Truss was the favorite among the Conservative Party’s roughly 200,000 grassroots members, who typically get the final say in leadership races.) This time, Sunak secured the support of nearly 200 Tory MPs, besting Johnson (who preemptively “We now need stability and unity and I will make it my utmost priority to bring our party and our country together,” Sunak Like his predecessor, Sunak is unlikely to get a honeymoon period. The immediate test will be whether his reputation for fiscal conservatism will be enough to calm the markets and steer the country through the litany of challenges it faces, not least a cost-of-living crisis, rising energy costs, and soaring inflation. Who is Rishi Sunak? Sunak followed one of the most traditional paths to power. Born in the English port city of Southampton to Hindu Punjabi immigrants from East Africa, Sunak was educated at the prestigious Winchester College, one of the U.K.’s elite private boarding schools, before going on to study philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford Univer...

London— Rishi Sunak became prime minister of the United Kingdom on Tuesday after meeting with King Charles III at Buckingham Palace. The 42-year-old former treasury chief is the country's King Charles III welcomes Rishi Sunak during an audience at Buckingham Palace, London, where he invited the newly elected leader of the Conservative Party to become Prime Minister and form a new government, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022. Aaron Chown / AP "Right now, our country is facing a profound economic crisis. The aftermath of Sunak, who used to work in finance, is — alongside his wife, tech heiress Akshata Murty — one of the wealthiest people in the U.K. and served as treasury secretary under Boris Johnson. He immediately faces an economic crisis which has seen the pound plummet in value and inflation and interest rates skyrocket. He was a vocal critic of the tax-cut-focused economic plan put in place under Truss just a few weeks ago, which sent shockwaves through international markets and eroded investor's confidence in the U.K. Despite virtually all of that plan being scrapped shortly after it was announced, global confidence in Britain's economic stability has yet to recover. "I will place economic stability and confidence at the heart of this government's agenda," Sunak said Tuesday. "This will mean difficult decisions to come." Sunak was selected by Conservative members of parliament to replace Truss as leader of Britain's Conservative Party, and therefore as prime minister, on Monday...

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• العربية • Azərbaycanca • Беларуская • Bosanski • Čeština • Cymraeg • Dansk • Deutsch • Eesti • Ελληνικά • Español • Esperanto • فارسی • Français • Frysk • Gàidhlig • 한국어 • Հայերեն • Hrvatski • Ido • Bahasa Indonesia • Íslenska • Italiano • ქართული • Қазақша • Latina • Latviešu • Lietuvių • Magyar • Македонски • മലയാളം • مصرى • Bahasa Melayu • Nederlands • नेपाली • 日本語 • Norsk bokmål • Occitan • Plattdüütsch • Polski • Português • Русский • Scots • Simple English • Slovenčina • Slovenščina • Српски / srpski • Suomi • Svenska • Татарча / tatarça • ไทย • Тоҷикӣ • Türkçe • Українська • Vèneto • Tiếng Việt • 粵語 • 中文 Before the Kingdom of Great Britain [ ] Before the Union of England and Scotland in 1707, the By the late From 1707 to 1721 [ ] Following the succession of office of first lord also usually (albeit unofficially) held the status of prime minister. It was not until the Since 1721 [ ] Prime ministers [ ] • (—) a parenthesised dash indicates the formation of a • ^ a b c d e f g Died in office • Pitt, for the first five days of his premiership (30 July – 4 August 1766), served as a Member of Parliament for • Pitt ran under a different constituency in the • Disraeli was elevated to the House of Lords in 1876, two years into his second premiership. Consequently, he relinquished his Commons seat and office as MP for Buckinghamshire. • Douglas Home disclaimed his peerage as the Timeline [ ] • • Stephen Taylor ODNB. [ full citation needed] • • • • • • • • • • • ^ a b • ^ a ...