Chair backs in Downing Street: Sunak follows Truss: This is how the change of power in Great Britain works

Rishi Sunak will take office as the new British Prime Minister this Tuesday.

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Chair backs in Downing Street: Sunak follows Truss: This is how the change of power in Great Britain works

Rishi Sunak will take office as the new British Prime Minister this Tuesday. According to government information, the previous head of government, Liz Truss, will chair her last cabinet meeting and then speak to King Charles III. submit their resignation. The monarch will then appoint Sunak as her successor.

Sunak was appointed the new leader of his Conservative Party on Monday, and with it the prime minister-designate.

Truss announced her resignation on Thursday after only a few weeks because of ongoing internal party criticism of her controversial economic policy. The 42-year-old Sunak will now be the third prime minister within a few weeks and the first Hindu in office.