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Rishi Sunak, Youngest UK PM in two centuries, takes office

LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 24: New Conservative Party leader and incoming prime minister Rishi Sunak departs Conservative Party Headquarters on October 24,2022 in London, England. Rishi Sunak was appointed as Conservative leader and the UK's next Prime Minister after he was the only candidate to garner 100-plus votes from Conservative MPs in the contest for the top job. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

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Due to Penny Mordaunt’s inability to garner enough support from MPs, he won the race for the Conservative Party leadership.
Rishi Sunak declared that uniting his party and the UK would be his utmost priority in his opening statement.
Rishi Sunak, 42, is the first British Asian prime minister since more than 200 years and will also be the youngest.
He succeeds Liz Truss, who resigned last week barely 45 days into her turbulent premiership.

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The departing prime minister will speak outside No. 10 after presiding over her final cabinet meeting at 9:00 BST before making her way to Buckingham Palace for her final visit with the King.
After that, Mr. Rishi Sunak will have his first meeting with the king, at which he will be given the opportunity to establish a government.
Rishi Sunak took over as Conservative Party leader after his old employer Boris Johnson cancelled his attempt to make a comeback and his competitor Penny Mordaunt was unable to win enough support from Conservative MPs.
Sunak will be the nation’s youngest prime minister in more than 200 years.
He succeeds Liz Truss, who had to resign in disgrace when her tax-cutting schemes failed within two months.
Even before Truss’s tax-cutting budget sent shockwaves through the market and caused the pound to plummet, the economy he inherited was on the verge of entering a recession.
After being forced to resign as Prime Minister in part because Mr. Rishi Sunak resigned as Chancellor, Boris Johnson may not be given a position in his cabinet.
The parents of Mr. Rishi Sunak are of Indian descent and arrived in the UK in the 1960s via East Africa.
He is wed to Akshata Murty, who is the daughter of Infosys founder Narayana Murthy.