Watching British Politics is like watching children's hockey. There's no plan or finesse, it's just one big ball of hands and feet flailing about madly with everyone screaming to pass it and occasionally a puck shoots out and the ball breaks up to follow it and then the whole process starts again.
Tory Party members want Truss out and Johnson back
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"World's Oldest Democracy."
It's not, the Icelandic Allthing has met every year since 930 AD (CE for the tender).
It's not, the Icelandic Allthing has met every year since 930 AD (CE for the tender).
Olivia Utley: Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak may have reached ‘some sort of agreement’
On GB News, Olivia Utley says that Sunak could be all but confirmed as the new Prime Minister by the end of today with Boris having accepted a place in the Cabinet
Just because a country has a parliament doesn't make it a democracy.
The Allthing was suspended between 1799 and 1845.
Iceland was also invaded by the British in 1940 and didn't become fully independent from Denmark until 1944.
Sunak praises Johnson's achievements as PM
Rishi Sunak has just publicly praised Boris Johnson for his achievements while being in Downing Street.In a tweet, Sunak wrote: "Boris Johnson delivered Brexit and the great vaccine roll-out.
And Sunak - who is now seen as a favourite to be the next PM - added: "Although he has decided not to run for PM again, I truly hope he continues to contribute to public life at home and abroad."
Sunak could become the UK's 57th Prime Minister tomorrow. Sunak and Leader of the House of Commons Penny Mordaunt are the only two in the race and Sunak is well ahead.
Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats - who were the other half of the Coalition Government with the Tories between 2010 and 2015 - have called for a General Election...
The Liberal Democrats say the Conservative leadership contest has become "a total farce".
“This is a humiliating climbdown for Boris Johnson and all the Conservative MPs who wanted to put him back in Number 10," Lib Dem Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper says.
She says the public will "rightly be furious that they’re set to endure a third Conservative PM in just as many months".
“While people are struggling with their spiralling bills, the Conservatives look set to appoint a former chancellor who lost the country billions," she says.
She reiterated calls for a general election, saying the country doesn't need "another Conservative coronation".
Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats - who were the other half of the Coalition Government with the Tories between 2010 and 2015 - have called for a General Election...
The Liberal Democrats say the Conservative leadership contest has become "a total farce".
“This is a humiliating climbdown for Boris Johnson and all the Conservative MPs who wanted to put him back in Number 10," Lib Dem Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper says.
She says the public will "rightly be furious that they’re set to endure a third Conservative PM in just as many months".
“While people are struggling with their spiralling bills, the Conservatives look set to appoint a former chancellor who lost the country billions," she says.
She reiterated calls for a general election, saying the country doesn't need "another Conservative coronation".
Sunak wins race to be next PM
Sunak: UK's youngest Prime Minister since 1812
At 42, Rishi Sunak will be:
Sunak: UK's youngest Prime Minister since 1812
At 42, Rishi Sunak will be:
- The UK's first British Asian prime minister
- The country's 57th prime minister (by the standard count)
- The UK's youngest PM since Lord Liverpool came to office in 1812
- The fastest from being first elected as an MP to becoming PM in modern times, taking just seven years
Sunak was born in Southampton on 12th May 1980. That makes him the youngest British PM since Robert Jenkinson (Lord Liverpool), who became PM on 8th June 1812 - the day after his 42nd birthday.
Interestingly, Jenkinson was PM until 1827, when he was succeeded by George Canning, who was the shortest-serving British PM until Liz Truss.
Sunak is married to Akshata Murty, the daughter of the billionaire Indian businessman who founded Infosys. Sunak and his wife are the 222nd richest people in the UK, worth £730 million.
So he may well be the richest British PM ever.
Truss will tomorrow meet the King at Buckingham Palace to resign as PM. Shortly afterwards Sunak will then meet the King at the Palace for his permission to form a government. It is ultimately the King's decision whether or not Sunak will be PM, although it's extremely unlikely he will say no.
Rishi Sunak: The basics
Age: 42
Place of birth: Southampton
Home: London and North Yorkshire
Education: Winchester College, Oxford University, Stanford University
Family: Married to businesswoman Akshata Murty, 39, with two daughters
Parliamentary constituency: Richmond (North Yorkshire)
Rishi Sunak calls for stability and unity as he wins contest to be PM
Rishi Sunak won the Tory leadership race after rival Penny Mordaunt failed to secure enough backing.
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