Joe Biden on Monday called Rishi Sunak’s appointment as Britain’s new prime minister “revolutionary” as he becomes the first non-white person to hold this position.
“It’s quite amazing, it’s a revolutionary milestone and it’s important,” Trump said during a White House ceremony marking the Hindu holiday of Diwali.
At 42, Rishi Sunak, a wealthy former banker with a career path typical of the British elite, became the youngest prime minister in contemporary UK history on Monday, but also the first of Indian origin, as that his grandparents lived in Punjab. , a region of northern India, before the independence of this country.
A meeting in the next few days.
Joe Biden will meet with him “in the next few days”, the White House has also announced.
“President Biden looks forward to meeting with (…) Mr. Sunak in the coming days,” US executive spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said on Monday, adding that custom requires waiting for the new prime minister to be received by of King Charles III. on Tuesday.
Rishi Sunak won after former Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned and his opponent Penny Mordaunt failed to qualify, following a breakneck campaign sparked by the resignation of Liz Truss, a victim after 44 days in office of the financial storm caused by her unfunded tax plans. cuts
Source: BFM TV
