British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak today, Tuesday, met with King Charles III before being announced as Prime Minister after the Conservative Party announced his election as party leader.
Buckingham Palace has announced that King Charles III has formally appointed Rishi Sunak as head of government. For his part, Sunak, in his first statements to party members after his election, stated that achieving economic stability was a priority and emphasized that the choice of ministers would not depend on names and all wings of the party would be in government. Rishi Sunak became leader of the Conservative Party and President of the British government, becoming the first person of Indian origin to hold the post.
And 1922 committee chairman Graham Brady announced the results of the nomination and confirmed that the committee received only one nomination after Mordaunt withdrew from the race minutes before the nomination closed, and Mordaunt said she supported Sunak as a party. leader and prime minister of the country. In their first reaction to Sunak’s victory, the opposition Labor Party felt that Sunak had placed the interests of his party ahead of the interests of the country and called for an immediate general election.
US President Joe Biden called Sunak’s election as Britain’s first non-white prime minister a “groundbreaking achievement.” Biden said during a celebration at the White House on the occasion of an Indian holiday that the appointment of Sunak, who is of Indian descent, as British prime minister is “an absolutely amazing, groundbreaking achievement and significant.” White House press secretary Karen Jean-Pierre, for her part, said that in the coming days, the US president will hold talks with the new British Prime Minister Sunak.
