After meeting King Charles today, the new UK prime minister Rishi Sunak gave his first speech to the nation from Downing Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Sunak spoke of a \u201cprofound economic crisis\u201d with Covid and the war in Ukraine contributing to the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said \u201csome mistakes were made\u201d by the Truss administration and that he had been appointed to fix them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Sunak warned there were \u201cdifficult decisions to come\u201d, but he pledged to unite the country, delivering a stronger NHS, better schools. safer streets, and controlling UK borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The primie minister will name his new cabinet today, with Jeremy Hunt expected to stay on as chancellor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After meeting King Charles today, the new UK prime minister Rishi Sunak gave his first speech to the nation from Downing Street. Mr Sunak spoke of a \u201cprofound economic crisis\u201d with Covid and the war in Ukraine contributing to the situation. He said \u201csome mistakes were made\u201d by the Truss administration and that he had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[1117],"class_list":["post-7958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-rishi-sunak-becomes-prime-ministre"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n