U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is marking a year in office but he has little reason to celebrate
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leaves 10 Downing Street to go to the House of Commons, London, for the weekly Prime Minister's Questions, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak marked a year in office on Wednesday with little to celebrate as wars on the international stage make a grim backdrop to his domestic challenges.
A little over a year ago, Sunak thought he had lost his chance to be prime minister. In September 2022 he lost a Conservative leadership contest to Liz Truss, who took over as prime minister from the scandal-dogged Boris Johnson. He promised his government would “have integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level.”
There has been some progress – inflation was 6.7% in September and the economy is growing, albeit only by about 0.5% on the year. But the health system remains overburdened, the government’s plans to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda as a deterrent is mired in the courts, and millions of people in Britain are still struggling to pay their bills.
Former Conservative lawmaker Justine Greening said Sunak’s talk of “breaking the political consensus and challenging the status quo” sounded more like Truss than the “sensible, pragmatic” politician who steadied the ship after his disruptive predecessor.
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