Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak gestures to MPs at the Conservative Central Office after becoming the new leader of the Conservative Party. Liz Truss will formally tender her resignation to King Charles III tomorrow before Sunak becomes the UK’s 57th Prime Minister. (Photo by Tejas Sandhu / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)
Rishi Sunak Becomes New Conservative Leader in London, UK – 24 Oct 2022
LONDON (AP) — Rishi Sunak is due to be installed as Britain’s third prime minister of the year by King Charles III. Then his first task is appointing a Cabinet that can wrestle with the U.K.’s economic and political crises. Sunak was selected as leader of the governing Conservative Party after the brief, disastrous term of Liz Truss. On Tuesday he will visit Buckingham Palace, where the king will formally ask Sunak to form a government. Sunak, Britain’s first prime minister of color, faces the unenviable task of trying to shore up an economy sliding toward recession and reeling after his predecessor’s experiment in libertarian economics.
