December 27, 2024

Rishi Sunak to be installed as U.K. prime minister on Tuesday

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As prime minister, Theresa May maintained that “Brexit means Brexit,” and there was no going back on the decision of voters in the 2016 referendum. But she seems okay with her party swinging behind the person who lost its leadership race just last month. In a Monday tweet, she praised Rishi Sunak — and implicitly criticized his predecessor, Liz Truss — saying that, as British prime minister, he “will provide the calm, competent, pragmatic leadership our country needs at this deeply challenging time.”

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