Prime minister of britain today

Sunak, the first British Asian to assume the role and a multimillionaire former banker, paid passing tribute to those predecessors in his first speech as leader Tuesday. But he also acknowledged “mistakes were made” under Truss, and promised to lead with “integrity, professionalism and accountability” — three qualities Johnson is widely perceived as lacking. “Our country is facing a profound economic crisis,” Sunak said in his first speech as prime minister outside No. 10 Downing St. “I will unite our country not with words but with action.” At 42, Sunak will be Though Sunak is a former banker, it’s through his wife’s father, an Indian software tycoon, that the couple sits on an estimated 730 million pound fortune ($825 million) — making them richer than the king and Camilla, the queen consort. Just like Truss, Sunak was not elected by the U.K.’s 67 million people but rather appointed by a few hundred Conservative lawmakers. In the U.K., the party with the most lawmakers in the House of Commons can appoint a new leader without holding a nationwide election. The opposition Labour Party and many others are demanding a public vote after the months of scandal and upheaval. Sunak, who served as finance minister under Johnson, won the ruling Conservatives' leadership contest Monday after an aborted comeback bid by his former boss. Now, Sunak will appoint his Cabinet, personnel who will give a sense of how he hopes to tackle the plummeting fortunes of the country’s economy and hi...