Rishi Sunak is the new premier of the United Kingdom . Designated yesterday with the appointment as leader of the majority Conservative Party to replace Liz Truss, the 42-year-old of Indian descent was today received at Buckingham Palace by King Charles III.
"I am here to face a deep economic crisis," the prime minister said in his inauguration address on Downing Street. “ I want to immediately remedy the mistakes made ”, he added, clearly referring to the bankruptcy of Liz Truss.
Sunak said that Truss's intentions to revive growth "were right", but " there have been errors that need to be corrected with competence and professionalism to deserve the country's trust ". He then thanked Boris Johnson for "his generosity and his successes" on Brexit and Covid.
A passing of the baton that took place in a short time, with separate hearings closely between the outgoing and incoming premier, who has now entered full capacity to compose his own government team. Sunak is the 57th prime minister in the history of the British monarchy, first of Indian origin and first installed by Charles after the succession to Elizabeth II.
Buckingham Palace has released some images of the meeting between the sovereign and the young Tory head of government, third in three years after Boris Johnson and Liz Truss: you can see the two smiling and cordial interlocutors immortalized in a short handshake after the half bow of Sunak's rite in front of the sovereign.
International reactions were not long in coming: all the main leaders, including Giorgia Meloni congratulated Sunak: " I look forward to collaborating with him and his cabinet on common challenges, supporting our shared values of freedom. and democracy ”, tweeted the Italian prime minister.
Little will change in relations with Moscow , said the Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov: "I do not see at the moment neither prerequisites nor bases or hopes for positive changes in relations between Russia and Great Britain in the near future".
(Unioneonline / L)
