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Arvind Kejriwal wishes Rishi Sunak on being elected UK Prime Minister

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday wished British Prime Minister-elect Rishi Sunak, saying Indians are making their mark across the globe. Sunak will make history as Britain's first Indian-origin Prime Minister having been elected unopposed as the new leader of the governing Conservative Party on Diwali, as Penny Mordaunt withdrew from the race. "Great News. Indians setting their mark all over the globe. "My best wishes to Mr @RishiSunak on becoming the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Wishing him wisdom and strength to lead the country successfully," Kejriwal said in a tweet. The 42-year-old former Chancellor of the Exchequer, considered a devout Hindu, will enter 10 Downing Street to be the youngest British Prime Minister in 210 years -- when Spencer Perceval held the post -- after his audience with King Charles III at Buckingham Palace, which is likely to be on Tuesday. The millionaire son-in-law of Infosys founder N R Narayana Murthy will be the first Hindu Pr

Sunak's prize for predicting Truss chaos: He gets to clean up the mess

Just seven weeks after Truss traveled to meet Queen Elizabeth II to become premier, Sunak will meet King Charles III on Tuesday to formally replace her

Rishi Sunak expected to keep Jeremy Hunt as he readies new UK cabinet

The incoming premier will formally take over from Liz Truss following a meeting with King Charles III, before addressing the nation and appointing members of his cabinet

Rishi Sunak to become the next UK PM: Let's understand his India connection

With Boris Johnson's party gate scandal and Liz Truss's tax cuts debacle, Sunak is the third prime minister in the last seven months

Indian-origin Rishi Sunak to become Britain's next prime minister

Sunak will replace Liz Truss, who served as Britain's shortest-serving prime minister

India, Pakistan to share pride as Sunak likely to be first non-White UK PM

With Rishi Sunak on the threshold of becoming the first non-White Prime Minister of Britain, arch-rivals India and Pakistan are on the cusp of history to share a pride, though none of them played a role in it. Sunak's grandparents originated from British India but their birthplace Gujranwala lies in modern day Pakistan's Punjab province. Thus, in an odd way, the new British leader is both an Indian and a Pakistani. So far, the scanty details about his ancestry are available only on social media and that is where both Indian and Pakistanis are expressing their views about his rise to power amidst bitter political wrangling in the UK. "The Sunaks are a Punjabi Khatri family from Gujranwala, now in Pakistan, tweeted one Queen Lioness 86, adding: "Ramdas Sunak, Rishi's paternal grandfather, left Gujranwala to work as a clerk in Nairobi in 1935." Ramdas' wife, Suhag Rani Sunak, moved to Delhi first from Gujranwala, along with her mother-in-law, before travelling to Kenya in 1937, accord

Rishi Sunak inching closer to become first Indian-origin UK PM on Diwali

Rishi Sunak was on Monday inching closer to become Britain's first Indian-origin Prime Minister after his former boss Boris Johnson quit the Conservative Party leadership race, saying it was "simply not the right time" for his comeback. With the former prime minister stepping aside on Sunday night, the prospect of a Diwali victory for 42-year-old Sunak seems a strong possibility. The former chancellor, who said he wanted to "fix our economy, unite our party and deliver for our country when he declared his candidacy, has held a solid lead in the contest having comfortably surpassed the 100-MPs threshold to make the shortlist in time for the 1400 local time Monday deadline. High-profile Tory MPs are switching allegiance from Johnson to Sunak, including former Home Secretary Priti Patel and cabinet ministers James Cleverly and Nadhim Zahawi. Patel, the Indian-origin former minister who resigned from the Cabinet when Liz Truss was elected the Prime Minister last month, said the Tories

Johnson loyalist Priti Patel comes out in support of Rishi Sunak as UK PM

Priti Patel, a loyalist of former British prime minister Boris Johnson, on Monday came out in support of Rishi Sunak to take over at 10 Downing Street as the Conservative Party leader after her former boss withdrew from the leadership contest. The Indian-origin former home secretary, who resigned from the Cabinet when Liz Truss was elected the Prime Minister last month, said the Tories must put political differences aside to give Sunak the best chance of succeeding as the new leader. Her intervention came as the former chancellor looks well poised as the frontrunner to make history as the first Indian-origin Prime Minister of the UK, with publicly voiced support for Leader of the Commons Penny Mordaunt still well short of the 100-MPs threshold. In these difficult times for our country we must unite by putting public service first and work together, tweeted Patel. We care about our country and with the enormous challenges upon us we must put political differences aside to give Rishi

Rishi Sunak edges closer to UK leadership prize as Boris Johnson caves

In a brief statement on Twitter late Sunday, shortly after Johnson said he wouldn't stand for fear of dividing the Conservative Party, Sunak vowed to lead with "integrity, professionalism

Explained: Five reasons of Liz Truss's downfall as UK prime minister

Liz Truss resigns as prime minister: the five causes of her downfall explained

Former PM Boris Johnson returns to UK to launch leadership bid: Report

Merely three months after he was ousted from power, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson landed in Britain on Saturday from a Caribbean holiday to launch a formal bid for the leadership

Sunak has hit 100 MPs mark for UK PM race to replace Liz, supporters say

Rishi Sunak's supporters claimed on Saturday that the Indian-origin former chancellor has hit the threshold of 100 members of Parliament required to make it to the shortlist for the race to replace Liz Truss as Conservative Party leader and British Prime Minister. The 42-year-old frontrunner's tally continues to grow as former prime minister Boris Johnson flies back from his Caribbean holiday to reportedly also join the contest. Neither Sunak nor Johnson have officially declared their intention to contest the leadership election, with Leader of the Commons Penny Mordaunt the only candidate to formally announce her candidacy so far. However, the former finance minister has taken a comfortable lead with some heavyweight Tory ministers and MPs from different factions of the Tory party throwing their weight behind him and the betting odds also continuing to rise in favour. "Rishi had the right plan in the summer and I think it is the right plan now," former deputy prime minister Domini

Ousted Boris Johnson eyes comeback as UK Conservatives pick new PM

Several British lawmakers, including scandal-tarnished former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, jockeyed for support Friday to become the country's next leader following the implosion of Liz Truss' historically short-lived government. The governing Conservative Party has ordered a lightning-fast race that aims to have a new prime minister in place within a week. The leadership uncertainty comes at a time of lethargic economic growth and as millions struggle with the rising cost of groceries, fuel and other basics and higher mortgage rates. A growing wave of strikes by train and postal workers, lawyers and more has revealed mounting discontent as a recession looms. Johnson has not even declared he is running, but bookmakers have made him one of the favorites to win the contest reflecting the scale of division and disarray in the party as it picks its third prime minister of the year. It would be an astonishing comeback for a polarising figure forced out just over three months ago amid a

Explained: Why Liz Truss' tenure was so short as UK PM

Rishi Sunak holds firm as bookies' favourite to replace Liz Truss as UK PM

A clear frontrunner to take over from Liz Truss as Conservative Party leader and British Prime Minister remains uncertain on Friday due to deep divisions among the Tories, but the bookies' odds have rocketed in favour of British Indian former chancellor Rishi Sunak. As the runner up of the leadership election which concluded last month, the former finance minister who had forecast much of the economic crisis unleashed by Truss' mini-budget is seen as a safe pair of hands to take charge at 10 Downing Street. The 42-year-old is holding a solid 55 per cent lead with the Oddschecker betting odds aggregator, followed by a 29 per cent chance of former prime minister Boris Johnson making a comeback. Third placed in what is emerging as a three-way contest is Leader of the Commons Penny Mordaunt, who had polled third in the first round of parliamentary votes to shortlist candidates for the last leadership race. I back Rishi Sunak to be our next PM. He has the plan and credibility to: restore

Liz Truss quits as UK PM after 45 days; a look at the front-runners

Truss, who came to power on September 6, is the shortest-serving UK prime minister, who succeeded Boris Johnson. She delivered a statement outside 10 Downing Street

Over half of Tory members want Truss to quit, Johnson to take over: Report

Liz Truss suffered a fresh body blow on Tuesday as a poll found more than half of Tory members want her to quit, with Boris Johnson emerging as the favourite to take over, a media report said

UK prime minister Liz Truss' waning power brings political plots, and jokes

Powerless, humiliated, labeled a ghost prime minister and compared unfavourably to a head of lettuce this is not a good week for Liz Truss. Britain's prime minister was scrambling to recover her grasp on power Tuesday after her economic plans were ripped up and repudiated by a Treasury chief whom she was forced to appoint to avoid meltdown on the financial markets. Truss remains in office, for now, largely because her Conservative Party is divided over how to replace her. In a bid at business as usual, Truss held a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday and met lawmakers from rival Conservative factions, arguing that keeping her in post can provide stability, even though she has had to ditch almost the entire prospectus on which she was elected party leader just six weeks ago. Chastened but defiant, Truss acknowledged Monday that mistakes were made but insisted she would lead the Conservatives into the next national election. Few believe that. Britain's lively, partisan press is unusually .

UK PM Liz Truss appoints Jeremy Hunt to replace sacked Chancellor Kwarteng

Embattled British Prime Minister Liz Truss on Friday appointed former Cabinet minister and party leadership contender Jeremy Hunt as her new Chancellor, after she sacked close friend Kwasi Kwarteng in an effort to stem the economic turmoil unleashed by his mini-budget. The Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP has been appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, Downing Street tweeted. Hunt was himself in the race for the top job after Boris Johnson resigned in July, but threw his weight behind former Chancellor Rishi Sunak after he did not get enough Conservative Party members backing him in the leadership election. His appointment is seen as Truss' attempt at closing the widening divide within the Tories, with many of Sunak loyalists in open rebellion against her policies. In her letter to Kwarteng released on Twitter, Truss said she was sorry to lose him and indicates that she still believes in the broader economic vision laid out in the controversial mini-budget. We share the same vision for our ..

UK PM Liz Truss reverses plan to cut corporation tax amid debacle

British Prime Minister Liz Truss has abandoned a planned cut to corporation tax, scrapping a key part of an economic plan that sparked weeks of market and political turmoil. Truss said at a hastily arranged news conference Friday that she was acting to reassure the markets of our fiscal discipline. Truss also fired Kwasi Kwarteng as Treasury chief on Friday, replacing him with former Cabinet minister Jeremy Hunt. Truss is trying to restore order after three weeks of turmoil sparked by the government's tax-cutting mini budget. The Sept 23 statement sent the pound plunging to record lows against the dollar and led the Bank of England to step in to prevent a wider economic crisis. Truss vowed to press on with other aspects of her economic plan, saying I want to deliver a low tax, high wage, high growth economy. Truss, a free-market libertarian, came to power last month pledging to cut taxes to spur growth. But her ability to deliver on that commitment is now in doubt.