Britain’s new prime minister, Rishi Sunak, began forming his new government after officially taking office on Tuesday.
Today the Prime Minister announced that Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt will remain in office.
Hunt took over the Treasury last month after being appointed by former Prime Minister Liz Terrace with the aim of allaying economic concerns in the country after she fired Kwasi Quarting.
In the past few hours, several members of the government of former premier Liz Truss have resigned.
Below is the latest list indicating who is so far out of Sunak’s plans.
The secretary of affairs, Jacob Rees-Mogg, was the first to step down, and then Brandon Lewis announced his resignation as attorney general.
And Wendy Morton tweeted that she would step down as a representative of the parliamentary bloc, and Jake Perry, the head of the Conservative Party, also resigned.
Brandon Lewis said he would step down as a minister for Wales.
Sunak will be appointed fifth education minister from July, following the resignation of Kate Malthouse.
Ranil Jayawardena posted a tweet that included a letter of resignation from his position as environment minister.
Cabinet agents Vicki Ford and Chloe Smith also resigned.
Finally, Alok Sharma remains at the head of COP26, but no longer has a ministerial role.
The new British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, said he was ready to lead the country “towards the future and to put his needs above politics”.
He added, in his first speech after his official inauguration, that he would form a government, which he described as “the best in my party”, and said he understood very well that he had work to do to restore confidence afterwards. everything that had happened.
Sunak said “tough decisions” were coming and pledged to unite the country.
Sunak officially assumed the post of Prime Minister of Great Britain after King Charles III commissioned him to form the new government.
“I’m not afraid,” Sunak said in his speech, adding that he knows the pressures of a high position and hopes to be able to meet his needs.
He stressed that he understood how difficult this moment is after the challenges of Covid and the war in Ukraine.
“I fully appreciate how difficult things are,” he said, adding that he knew that the mandate that the Conservative Party got in 2019 was not owned by one person, but rather “a mandate that belongs to us and unites us all.” .
Sunak also promised “a stronger health insurance system, better schools, safer roads, control of our borders, protection of our environment and support for our military”.
Sunak praised former prime minister Boris Johnson, pointing out his “remarkable achievements” as prime minister.
Sunak said his government will enjoy integrity, professionalism and responsibility at all levels, adding that it is “trustworthy and I will earn your trust”.
Speaking about his tenure as a former finance minister, Sunak said he did everything he could to “protect individuals and businesses” through paid vacation programs.
He added: “I will unite our country, not with words, but with deeds”.
He also pledged to address “the mistakes made by the Lees Terrace government”, warning of a deep economic crisis facing the UK. He said he was “ready to lead his country into the future and restore confidence in the government”, stressing “meeting the needs of citizens and giving them priority over politics”.
This follows his uncontested victory on Monday in the Conservative Party leadership election, triggered by the resignation of Prime Minister Liz Terrace last week.
Sunak, the former chancellor, was declared leader of the Conservative party on Monday after his opponent, Penny Mordaunt, the majority leader in the House of Commons, withdrew before the nomination deadline.
On the contrary, the Labor Party has argued that the new prime minister is not the solution to the country’s economic problems.
In response to Sunak’s first speech as prime minister, Annelies Dodds, a senior party official, told BBC News that the country needed a “fresh start with the general election”.
He added: “Rishi Sunak says it’s the solution when the problem is ultimately conservative MPs.”
“Rishi Sunak was part of those 12 years of Tory failure,” said Dodds.
“People didn’t vote in the last election for a high-tax, low-growth economy, but obviously Rishi Sunak was at the center of those events,” he added.
Dodds criticized Sunak’s lack of concrete policy proposals, saying, “Normal people obviously pay the price” for what she called the Conservative Party’s “economic failure.”
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“The first prime minister of Asian descent”
Sunak is the first non-white person to hold the post of British Prime Minister. At the age of 42, he will be the youngest prime minister in more than 200 years.
It will have to face the highest British inflation of the past 40 years and restore confidence in the government’s economic policies after Truss’s short and chaotic tenure.
It will also have to try to unite a divided conservative party.
Sonak was born in Southampton in 1980 to parents of Indian origin who immigrated from East Africa. His father was a general practitioner and his mother ran her own pharmacy.
Sunak is now the first British Prime Minister of Asian descent.
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Sunak studied at a private boarding school, Winchester College, and then attended Oxford University in Great Britain and Stanford University in California.
In the United States, he met his wife Akshata Murti, the daughter of an Indian billionaire and computer magnate. And they have two daughters.
Sunak has not publicly commented on the amount of his wealth, but his career in money before entering politics is said to have made him a millionaire when he was still twenty.
The finances of Sonak and his family have come under close scrutiny this year, as has his wife’s tax situation.
Sunak’s victory in the Conservative Party coincides with the celebration of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights.
Rishi Sunak was a prominent candidate to succeed his former president, Boris Johnson, as prime minister after the latter’s resignation in July.
But Sunak failed to convince party members, who ultimately chose Liz Terrasse in September.
Sunak focused his campaign over the summer essentially on one issue: the deteriorating state of the British economy and his plan to overcome it.
Sunak told the BBC during the previous contest that he would rather lose the conservative leadership race than “win a false promise”.
