Rishi Sunak
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Rishi Sunak declares candidacy to be new UK PM, says 'wants to fix economy'
World | Oct 23, 2022, 04:32 PM ISTUK PM Race: The 42-year-old is the clear frontrunner as he raced ahead with the backing of at least 128 Tory members of Parliament, even as loyalists of his former boss – Boris Johnson – claimed he has the necessary 100 MPs needed to make it to the shortlist.
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UK PM Race: Rishi Sunak, Boris Johnson camps claims hitting 100-member threshold
World | Oct 23, 2022, 12:00 AM ISTRishi Sunak leads UK-PM race: 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.
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UK Political Crisis: Who are in PM race, what's next in United Kingdom? EXPLAINED
World | Oct 21, 2022, 11:21 AM ISTUK Political Crisis: The entire world is worried with the developmenets in the economic crisis-hit United Kingdom as a further escalation of the crisis in the one of economic powers will affect the global economy.
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Queen Elizabeth II appoints Liz Truss as Britain's new Prime Minister
World | Sep 06, 2022, 06:01 PM ISTLiz Truss appointed UK PM: Truss travelled to the 96-year-old monarch's Balmoral Castle residence in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, to meet the Queen who formally asked her to form a new government.
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Priti Patel resigns as UK Home Secretary hours after Liz Truss wins UK PM race
World | Sep 05, 2022, 11:49 PM ISTUK news: UK Home Secretary Priti Patel resigned on Monday hours after Liz Truss won the UK PM race defeating Rishi Sunak.
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Rishi Sunak unlikely to join PM-elect Liz Truss's revamped cabinet
World | Sep 05, 2022, 11:21 PM ISTRishi Sunak, who lost the vote 57-43 per cent, said he was "proud" of the campaign he ran and indicated once again that he did not plan to serve in a Truss-led Cabinet if offered a job.
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Liz Truss beats Rishi Sunak to become new UK PM: Netizens bombard Twitter with memes
Trending | Sep 05, 2022, 09:12 PM ISTLiz Truss has defeated Rishi Sunak to be the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Soon after the news broke out, Twitter was bombarded with memes and hilarious jokes. Take a look.
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Why did Rishi Sunak lose UK PM race?
World | Sep 05, 2022, 09:04 PM ISTRishi Sunak loses UK PM race: Truss polled 81,326 votes, compared to Sunak's 60,399 in an election with a high turnout of 82.6 per cent, with 654 rejected ballots from a total of 172,437 eligible Tory voters.
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Who is Liz Truss, UK's next PM-designate
World | Sep 05, 2022, 07:06 PM ISTUK PM RACE: Newly-elected Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister-designate Liz Truss is among the senior British politicians known for championing deeper India-UK strategic and economic ties, describing them as a "sweet spot" of global trade dynamics.
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PM Modi congratulates new UK PM; here's what Lizz Truss' victory means for India
World | Sep 05, 2022, 07:23 PM ISTLiz Truss undertook a two-day trip to India in October last year. During her visit, she underscored the importance of partnership with India.
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UK PM race: Final countdown begins for Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss
World | Sep 05, 2022, 05:27 PM ISTUK PM race: If elected, 42-year-old Rishi Sunak will go on to make history as the first Prime Minister of the UK of Indian heritage.
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'If I lose...': Rishi Sunak ahead of UK PM race result tomorrow
World | Sep 04, 2022, 08:54 PM ISTRishi Sunak, from being the clear frontrunner in the early knockout stages of the contest with the Tory MPs, has been trailing Truss in most surveys of party members voting to elect a new leader to succeed Johnson.
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'See you Monday': Rishi Sunak signs off campaign for British PM election, thanks supporters
World | Sep 04, 2022, 08:53 AM ISTRishi Sunak news: The 42-year-old British Indian former finance minister pegged his campaign around a focus on getting a grip on soaring inflation, a 10-point plan to tackle illegal immigration.
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Voting closes in UK Prime Minister race between Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss
World | Sep 02, 2022, 10:11 PM ISTUK PM Race: Sunak, 42, and Truss, 47, have gone head-to-head in a dozen hustings up and down the UK over the past month to win over the votes of an estimated 160,000 Tory electorate.
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UK PM race: Rishi Sunak camp accuses Liz Truss of avoiding scrutiny
World | Aug 30, 2022, 09:45 PM ISTUK PM Race: Foreign Secretary Truss, who is the current frontrunner according to pre-poll surveys and bookie’s odds, was due to face tough questions from veteran BBC political journalist Nick Robinson in a one-on-one interview – already done by Sunak earlier this month.
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'Namaste, Salaam!': Rishi Sunak greets Indian diaspora, says UK-India ties need to be more two-way
World | Aug 23, 2022, 07:48 AM ISTRishi Sunak News: On China, the former minister reiterated his stand on the need to be “very robust” in defending the UK against its aggressiveness.
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UK PM race: Team Sunak attack rival’s ‘magic money tree’ promises
India | Aug 22, 2022, 08:14 PM ISTUK PM Race: With just over a week to go before the vote for a new leader closes to Tory members on September 2, Sunak’s team warned Truss’ policy pledges would plunge the UK economy into an inflation spiral.
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Rishi Sunak's new campaign video for UK PM race: 'Underdogs don't give up'
World | Aug 21, 2022, 05:15 PM ISTThe video, first used to introduce Sunak at a hustings event in Manchester on Friday night, shows the former Chancellor at a series of campaign events since the race began last month and addressing Tory members who are voting for a new party leader to take charge as British Prime Minister on Septemb
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Rishi Sunak 'could head straight to US' if he loses battle for UK PM
World | Aug 18, 2022, 08:43 PM ISTSome MPs are predicting that the former chancellor will opt to leave the Parliament if he loses the battle for Prime Minister, although allies insist he is 'not going anywhere', Daily Mail reported.
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Salman Rushdie stabbing: Rishi Sunak says attack should be wake-up call to sanction Iran
World | Aug 14, 2022, 05:45 PM ISTSalman Rushdie stabbed: The former Chancellor told ‘The Daily Telegraph’ that attempts to revive the Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), may be futile and therefore it was important to assess action against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).