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  Rishi Sunak declares candidacy to be new UK PM, says 'wants to fix economy'

  World | October 23, 2022 16:32 IST

  UK 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 | October 23, 2022 0:00 IST

  Rishi 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 | October 21, 2022 11:21 IST

  UK 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 | September 06, 2022 18:01 IST

  Liz 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 | September 05, 2022 23:49 IST

  UK 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 | September 05, 2022 23:21 IST

  Rishi 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 | September 05, 2022 21:12 IST

  Liz 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 | September 05, 2022 21:04 IST

  Rishi 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 | September 05, 2022 19:06 IST

  UK 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 | September 05, 2022 19:23 IST

  Liz 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 | September 05, 2022 17:27 IST

  UK 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 | September 04, 2022 20:54 IST

  Rishi 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 | September 04, 2022 8:53 IST

  Rishi 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 | September 02, 2022 22:11 IST

  UK 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 | August 30, 2022 21:45 IST

  UK 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 | August 23, 2022 7:48 IST

  Rishi 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 | August 22, 2022 20:14 IST

  UK 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 | August 21, 2022 17:15 IST

  The 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 | August 18, 2022 20:43 IST

  Some 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 | August 14, 2022 17:45 IST

  Salman 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).