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Rishi Sunak has officially been sworn in as United Kingdom’s Prime Minister after meeting with King Charles III on Tuesday morning.
He met with the King in the palace’s 1844 room, where the King invited him to form a government.
Sunak had arrived at the Palace around 10:15 am to meet the King, shortly after Liz Truss tendered her resignation letter to the King in the same Palace.
After being selected by Tory MPs on Monday, Sunak warned the country faced a “profound economic challenge”
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He ruled out an early general election, despite calls from Labour, the Scottish National Party, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party.
Sunak is the first person of colour, the first British-Asian and the first Hindu to lead the United Kingdom.
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Speaking on the steps of Downing Street after being appointed premier by King Charles III, Sunak spoke of Truss’s “noble” aims but said some “mistakes” had been made.
“Right now our country is facing a profound economic crisis, the aftermath of Covid still lingers, Putin’s war in Ukraine has destabilised energy markets and supply chains the world over,” he said.
He said however he wanted to “pay tribute” to Truss whose tenure as leader lasted just seven weeks.
Her tax-slashing budget sparked economic and political turmoil.
“She was not wrong to want to improve growth in this country. It is a noble aim and I admired her restlessness to create change but some mistakes were made, not born of ill will or bad intentions, but mistakes nonetheless,” he said.
“And I have been elected as leader of my party — your prime minister — in part to fix them, and that work begins immediately,” he added.
