Appointed on Monday by the Conservative Party, Rishi Sunak will be Britain’s next prime minister. He will be officially named head of government on Tuesday.
The former Chancellor of the Treasury (equivalent to our Minister of Finance) will replace Liz Truss, dragged down by a succession of failures in the presentation of her economic program and by a wave of internal disputes.
Rishi Sunak was already the darling of Tory executives last summer when it came to finding a successor for Boris Johnson, whom he had also definitively weakened by leaving his government. However, Rishi Sunak had been defeated by Liz Truss, whose more right-wing line had seduced the militant base.
In recent weeks, however, he has said all the bad things he thought about Liz Truss’s roadmap, in particular ridiculing an economic “standing up sleeping” program.
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Source: BFM TV
