In this article you can read about: The new Prime Minister of Great Britain will soon give a speech in front of his new office, in Downing Street number 10. Early on Tuesday afternoon he met King Charles for a symbolic transfer of power in Great Britain. Thus, Sunak has now stepped in as Prime Minister. This is the first time King Charles has such a “kissing of hands”, as the meeting is called, since he became king earlier this autumn. The meeting is the first of many, as it is common for the Prime Minister and the King in Great Britain to meet for secret talks every week. – Some mistakes were made – It is only right to explain why I stand here as your new prime minister. Right now our country is facing a major economic crisis, Sunak opened his speech on Tuesday afternoon. Sunak said that this crisis was due to both the pandemic and Putin’s war in Ukraine. – But some mistakes were made, he said, and added that one of his roles as prime minister was to ensure that they were sorted out. – I will gather our country. Not with words, but with action, he said, promising to work day in and day out to keep this promise. The name Rishi Sunak is trending on Twitter in India on Tuesday, where several politicians are celebrating what they call a “historic and commendable achievement”. For Brits it is perhaps more complicated. The predecessor, Liz Truss, was ridiculed because she did not last longer in the office than a head of iceberg lettuce does on the vegetable shelf. Sunak himself has been nicknamed “Robot Rishi”, as critics said he showed a startling lack of emotion during his speech to the people on Monday evening. Here, Rishi Sunak (42) meets the king to be appointed prime minister. Photo: Aaron Chown / AP Mykje suggests that Sunak must make an effort to be taken seriously, even though he was the only candidate who received more than 100 votes in the conservative party group. After her very last meeting with her ministers as Prime Minister, Truss looked optimistic as she took the lectern in front of Number 10 Downing Street. – It has been a great honor to be Prime Minister of this great country. In particular, to mourn the nation as it mourned the death of Her Majesty the Queen after 70 years in service, and to welcome her successor, King Charles the Third. Truss expressed his support for Sunak as the new prime minister, and wished him luck in the future governance of the country. She said she was more convinced than ever that the Conservative government had to be brave in handling the challenges they now face. – We must take advantage of our freedoms from Brexit to do things in a different way, she said in her speech on Tuesday morning. – I have faith in the British people, and I know that we have brighter times ahead of us. Liz Truss gave her last speech as British Prime Minister on Tuesday morning. Photo: Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP Now she herself is going back to working on “the back benches” at home in south-west Norfolk, she says. It is expected that Sunak will give his speech in an hour’s time, after meeting the king at Buckingham Palace. More than half of the British people want new elections in the country, although four out of ten are happy that Sunaki will become prime minister, according to a poll published by The Telegraph newspaper. Sunak has nevertheless stated in front of the members of parliament that he does not want new elections in the country. According to common law, the next parliamentary election must be held before January 2025. If the opponent Penny Mordaunt had received more than 100 votes during the course of Monday, it would have become relevant to hold a primary vote in the party. Rishi Sunak together with the members of the powerful 1922 Committee of the Conservative Party. Photo: Stefan Rousseau / AP Many thought this would make the election within the party more democratic, but is only possible if the members have two or more candidates to choose from. On Monday, Sunak was still the only candidate who qualified to continue in the election campaign. Senior researcher at Nupi, Kristin Haugevik, thinks it has a lot to say that Sunak has a different background than what one is used to seeing in British politics, even though he has studied at Oxford, among other things. – Representation is important. That you have leaders you can identify with, that the whole people feel that they are reflected in the highest positions in politics, she says to news. Who is Rishi Sunak? Photo: Aberto Pezzali / AP Rishi Sunak (42) becomes the new leader of the Conservative Party, and thus Prime Minister of Great Britain. Sunak has risen quickly through the ranks. He was first elected to parliament in 2015, and was finance minister from February 2020 to July 2022. But what do we know about him? Sunak was born in the coastal city of Southampton in 1980 to parents of Indian origin, immigrated from East Africa. His father was a GP, while his mother ran a pharmacy. Sunak becomes the first Hindu and British-Asian Prime Minister. He will also become the youngest British Prime Minister since the 18th century. Sunak was educated at the private boarding school Winchester College, Oxford and Stanford in the USA. In the US, he met his wife Akshata Murty, the daughter of an Indian billionaire and IT mogul. The couple has two daughters. Sunak has never commented on his personal wealth, but it is rumored that he became a millionaire already in his 20s working in finance. Got a shot in the arm when he was reprimanded and fined earlier this year for his participation in “Partygate”. Sunak is a teetotaler, and his drink of choice is cola. When he becomes Prime Minister this week, it will coincide with Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. Source: BBC. On Monday, a British think tank in The Telegraph warned that around ten thousand members of the Conservative Party were going to leave the party as a result of not having been given a vote in the leadership election. Several dozen members wrote on Twitter that they had already done this, and some said they would instead support the Reform UK party, which is led by former UKIP leader Nigel Farage. At the same time, the opposition party Labor has around 50% support in the opinion polls. If there had been a new election now, leader Keir Starmer would probably have had a much better chance than before at the prime minister’s job. Sunak (42) is the only remaining candidate for the post of prime minister in Great Britain. Photo: HENRY NICHOLLS / Reuters Haugevik also does not believe that Sunak’s government will make the party that much more popular at first. – It is a difficult task, I would say. The first step will probably be this budget, which will now arrive very soon. – It will be important, not only to calm the market, but also to take measures that ordinary Britons know will have an effect. It is expected that Sunak will deliver an expanded budget on 31 October, and continue to repair the damage following Truss’s so-called “mini-budget”. The British economy will be high on the agenda going forward. Here, Sunak has better assumptions than those who came before him, says Haugevik. Sunak receives criticism from several quarters because he has a large private fortune, of 730 million pounds, or almost NOK 8.7 billion. The Washington Post reports. Much of the money comes from his wife, Akshata Murty, who is the daughter of an Indian billionaire who is called “the Indian Bill Gates”. Murty does not pay tax in the UK, because she is not registered as a resident in the country. Akshata Murty is the daughter of the billionaire Narayana Murthy, who is called “the Indian Bill Gates”. Photo: HANNAH MCKAY / Reuters Earlier this year, the BBC estimated that with this it has avoided paying 2.1 million pounds, or almost NOK 25 million, in tax. The huge fortune has led to questions about whether Sunak is in the right position to get ordinary people in Britain out of a cost-of-living crisis, reports the broadcaster. She and Sunak met when they both attended Stanford University in California, and married in 2009. They have two daughters together. – Congratulations to Rishi, says father-in-law Narayana Murthy in a statement to Reuters partner ANI. – We are sure that he will do his best for the people of Great Britain. Sunak has never commented on his personal wealth himself, but has defended his wife’s tax status in the past, telling The Sun newspaper that “slandering her to go after him is terrible”.
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