Former finance minister Rishi Sunak becomes prime minister after former Prime Minister Liz Truss was ousted after seven weeks in office.
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Former finance minister Rishi Sunak completed a political comeback Monday, when he was selected prime minister by Britain's ruling Conservative Party, just seven weeks after he was beaten to office by Liz Truss. Sunak, 42, officially became prime minister on Tuesday after meeting with King Charles at Buckingham Palace, where he received symbolic permission to take up the role during a ceremony known as the "kissing of the hands."
Sunak is the fifth British prime minister in six years, the third in less than two months. He is Britain's first leader of South Asian descent, its first Hindu prime minister, and the nation's first leader of color. He is the youngest prime minister of modern times.
He won an internal party contest to be the country's new leader following Truss' Oct. 20 resignation. Her tenure was the shortest ever for a British prime minister and was marked by economic turmoil. British voters elect a party, not a specific leader, meaning the ruling party has latitude to change a prime minister without calling an election. Sunak won the party contest after his challenger Penny Mordaunt dropped out of the race.
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People of the U.K.: Meet the new boss; he’s pretty much the same as the last 4 bosses.
Just like the United States Is lol
@Truck Taxi What’s wrong? Just making sure there’s no plastic. 😆
@DanOfTheWild like born in caucus mountains near Kazakhstan and Russia??
@Joey Tribbiani like whyte
I think it won’t be pretty much the same.. Sunaks level of influence, I confirm much gigantic, let’s see it in years to come
Anyone wanna bet how long he’ll last till he resigns? LOL
This guys the reason they’re in this mess in the first place being the Treasury Secretary and burrowing all that money during COVID and afterwards. He’ll raise taxes to try to fix the problem and slice prices in other areas. Obviously this is impossible to do without backlash and it doesn’t help that he’s the richest politician in the UK. He’ll last longer then Truss though and I’ll give him til May and then Boris will be back until the next election.
Not likely to resign he’s got over a billion people morally supporting him near and far.
He’ll go fully Gray long before he voluntarily leaves office
@Joseph Archundia y?
@José Torres 70 days
@Joseph Archundia And ??? What you expect next
Isn’t this guy affiliated with the WEF? If so that means the UK will be scaling back on farmland and forced to eat bugs like they’re trying to do in Finland and the other Scandinavian countries. I weep for the nations falling into the WEF trap.
All the media “corrupt media” has nothing bad to say about him, no dirt at all, so you know he will be Rotten for the people.
@Andrew Campbell poo in the loo
@Andrew Campbell india is and always has been a shyt hole.
Hes going to have the UK eating sewage and calling anyone who disagrees a racist
Dude, he hasn’t technically done anything as a PM yet and you’re already over here pointing fingers. Wow.
@ㅤ ׂ𓅓 Yes, because racism… or maybe this dude is awful and you could do some basic homework.
WEF be like: Maybe if we parade a “person of color” we’ll make our agenda stick!
What’s WEF?
@Akash Ch World Economy Federation Klaus Schwab 🤡 run.
@Will Fakaroni only in usa you can hear race talk
@Joey Tribbiani that’s not really true
@Joey Tribbiani Not at all, they were making a big stink that Truss’s cabinet had no white men in top positions.
Just what the UK needs a plutocrat that will enrich himself while the populace becomes more impoverished
💯☠️🌎
Whoever elected as PM in UK no difference in geopolitic of UK.
I give him 2 weeks 🤷♂️
His loyalty is not for you it is for his Boss , like JT the World is 😭☠️
He is the slave of little hat people.
Indians love Israel.
@Emperor Nero yep.
Why no one else wants to hold this great honor position? 😀
Alright so can some of my British counterparts please help me and other Americans in understanding if this is a good thing or just as bad as Truss seemed to have been? Legitimately, have no idea who this guy really is but yeah, I hope he actually helps the British people
It’s a jolly good thing, old chap. In the parliamentary system, there is an ever-present opportunity for failed officials (and some good ones too, like Churchill) to be shown the door.
If America had a parliamentary system, them all pther things being equal until their accession:
Lyndon B. Johnson would have been out by the spring of 1968, replaced by President Eugene McCarthy.
Nixon would have been out in March 1973 and the Watergate mess would never have gone on and on for 26 months – but then again, Nixon’s successor may have been Spiro Agnew. Gerald Ford would never have been President. Jimmy Carter would have been out in 1979, possibly replaced in the White House in this “alternate universe” by Bob Dole. Reagan would have been out when the Itan-Contra news erupted, possibly replaced by Walter Mondale,. Bill Clinton would have been out by 1995, and Newt Gingrich or Ross Perot would have been Clinton’s successor. Bush Jr would probably never have been elected President, it would more likely have been John McCain instead; but given Bush Jr as President, he would have been gone right after Katrina (2005), possibly replaced by Don Siegelman or John Kerry. Ron Paul or someone similar probably would have been elected President in 2008. Obama, out by 2014, possibly replaced by Mitt Romney or Mitch McConnell. Trump could not have been elected under a parliamentary system; but if he had been, Trump would have served only a few weeks at most; followed by Hillary Clinton. Biden would never have been elected under a parliamentary as yatem, but if he had been, Biden would already have been ushered out, possibly replaced by Ted Cruz or Adam Kinzinger or Ben Sasse.
@Scott Davis Yeah, jolly good thing another WEF plant has made it to the highest offices of my homeland, and not even an ethnic Briton at that.
Damn, the media is creaming over this guy !!!
Thats how you know he is a globalist in the kobal. He will ruin the uk
Oh my God I would pay big money to see Queen Victoria’s reaction to this moment lol
Hopefully he can still do a better job than Liz, I covered this in my last video, but many decisions just didn’t fully make sense under Liz 44 day reign
Best UK PM Ever 👍
Lol the guy hasn’t even done anything yet.
With the backwardness of our economy, increment in the price of gas, alarming rates of unemployment. I must confess our country have taken a wrong turns.vividly I don’t know how else to carter for my expenses
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GOOD LUCK MR SUNAK WE APPRECIATE YOUR HARDWORK HONESTY LOYALTY TO YOUR COUNTRY UK
Congratulations 🎉