The ex-minister of finance will become the fifth conservative head of government since the referendum on Brexit in 2016, and the first non-white to direct the country.
Le Monde
Will he be able to get the country out of the political and financial crisis in which he has been immersed for several months? Rishi Sunak was appointed by the British Conservatives to be the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on Monday October 24, after the departure of Liz Truss from Downing Street, Thursday.
Unhappy candidate this summer against the former British Minister, who resigned after only 44 days in power, the former British finance minister, 42, benefited from the renunciation of the former head of the British government, Boris Johnson. His other opponent, Penny Mordaunt
Supported by more than half of the conservative deputies, Mr. Sunak announced his candidacy on Sunday evening. “I want to straighten our economy, unite our party and act for our country”, had he declared on Twitter , promising in a tackle to Boris Johnson” integrity, professionalism and responsibility “.
First non-white man at the head of the government
Petits of immigrants of Indian origin to the classic British elite course, Rishi Sunak, wealthy former banker, will become the first non-Black to direct the government.
The former chancellor, guardian of budgetary orthodoxy and work executioner, seduces a large part of his camp while the country is going through a severe economic and social crisis, with inflation at more than 10 % and strikes that multiply. The situation has continued to deteriorate in recent months when the government has been paralyzed by successive upheavals waving the majority and was further aggravated by the errors of Liz Truss who destabilized the markets and dropped the pound sterling.
m. Sunak had regularly denounced Liz Truss’s economic plan this summer and he appears to be a reassuring figure for the British markets. On Monday, the pound sterling went back with the possibility of the appointment of the former finance minister at the head of the government.
Rishi Sunak will be the fifth tenant of 10 Downing Street since the Brexit referendum, in 2016, which opened a page of unique economic and political turbulence in the United Kingdom.