Rishi Sunak will meet King Charles on Tuesday morning before taking over as prime minister
The government has announced the schedule for Tuesday, where Rishi Sunak will travel to Buckingham Palace and meet King Charles.
THE ALTAR will meet the monarch after Liz Truss has chaired a final meeting of her cabinet at 9am, after which she will give a speech outside Downing Street. She will then go to Buckingham Palace for an audience with the King.
Then, THE ALTAR will go to meet the King, where he will be asked to form a government.
The new Prime Minister will then give a speech outside Number 10 at around 11.35am.
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Here’s a roundup of today’s news, how Rishi Sunak wins the leadership of the Conservative party as the sole candidate after Penny Mordaunt decided not to run.
Rishi Sunak has become the chairman of the Conservative party, after the results of the first round of the leadership race were announced on Monday afternoon.
In a speech THE ALTAR told his party it must “unite or die” and in a muted televised speech he said Britain faced “a profound economic challenge”.
Penny Mordaunt announced that she would withdraw from the race, minutes before the 1922 committee was announced. Allies have shown evidence that she was less than 10 MPs away from reaching the 100 MP threshold.
THE ALTAR We will meet King Charles in the palace on Tuesday where he will be asked to form a government and become prime minister. Sunak will give a speech outside Downing Street before midday.
Liz Truss will chair her final cabinet at 9am before heading to the palace to resign.
YouGov has published a new survey that suggests just that Keir Starmer seen as likely to make the best prime minister by voters in three times as many constituencies as THE ALTAR.
That’s it for today. Thanks for following.
Despite having no popular mandate, it did little to reassure people worried about rising costs or longer NHS waits. The emergency is real. However, Mr Sunak appears to be aiming to switch off household support for energy bills next April. He clearly thinks that meeting an arbitrary target of reducing the national debt is more important than saving people from poverty.
Read our editorial on Sunak’s initial premiere here:
Sketchy Caretaker John Crace wrote this in the events of the day, which he described as “the second coming of Sunak, the silent Messiah.”
Everything went as well as the Conservative party could have hoped. A new leader – the right leader, as far as MPs are concerned – was elected within days. There is no general election. Heaven forbid. A failed state could not do with that level of democracy. Never trust the people you intend to govern.
Not even a controlled, secret election of conservative gerontocratic membership. That really hadn’t worked out so well the last time they’d tried it. No. Now it was time to reduce the electorate from 180,000 to 357 MPs. This was the way to govern Great Britain. Men and women who could be trusted to put their own and their party’s interests before those of the country. A calling higher than simple patriotism.
Mind you, it hadn’t been completely floating. Boris Johnson had flown back from his holiday – what he thought was a holiday when the rest of parliament was not in recess – to announce that he thought he had served in the wilderness. In his mind, a couple of hard months off was more than enough punishment for his criminality, serial lying and general incompetence.
To be honest, it was enough for 102 deputies. Enough to secure the convict a place on the ballot. That is if you trust him to not have doubled at least 20 of his supporters. Not many people did. Most just thought he didn’t get the numbers and was trying to put the most positive spin on a failed comeback.
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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt he wished Rishi Sunak to become prime minister.
THE ALTAR has not yet announced whether it will continue Hunting in the post, ahead of a tax return scheduled for Oct. 31.
Hunting He tweeted: “This is a time for honesty about the great economic challenges we face and courage in addressing them. We have a prime minister who can be trusted to do that – and give us all confidence in the great potential of our country.”
Congratulations for @RishiSunak, our future Prime Minister. This is a time for honesty about the great economic challenges we face and courage in addressing them. We have a Prime Minister who can be trusted to do this – and to give us all confidence in the great potential of our country.
— Jeremy Hunt (@Jeremy_Hunt) October 24, 2022
New polling by YouGov has found that most people believe Rishi Sunak should call early general elections.
The results, published a few hours after it was confirmed that THE ALTAR would be the next prime minister, found that 56% of people said they thought they should, compared to 29% who thought otherwise.
YouGov also revealed there were mixed feelings about THE ALTAR taking the post of prime minister – 41% of people fell into the category of “disappointed” against 38% of those who were “satisfied”.
The news that Rishi Sunak will become Prime Minister tomorrow when he meets the King will mean that Liz Truss has asked her last prime minister’s questions.
It was thought she could have stayed until lunchtime on Wednesday to answer questions from the Labor leader, Sir Keir Starmer, for the last time.
Departing leaders have previously used final inbox sessions as a eulogy send-off, from Margaret Thatcher replying “I like this” in response to a joke from Dennis Skinner if she were to become the governor of the new European Central Bank, for her of Boris Johnson “Hasta la vista, baby” in July.
Instead Truss The last time she would address the community as prime minister would be her insistence that she was a “fighter, not a quitter”, before she left 24 hours later.
Rishi Sunak will meet King Charles on Tuesday morning before taking over as Prime Minister
The government has announced the schedule for Tuesday, where Rishi Sunak will travel to Buckingham Palace and meet King Charles.
THE ALTAR will meet the monarch after Liz Truss has chaired a final meeting of her cabinet at 9am, after which she will give a speech outside Downing Street. She will then go to Buckingham Palace for an audience with the King.
Then, THE ALTAR will go to meet the King, where he will be asked to form a government.
The new Prime Minister will then give a speech outside Number 10 at around 11.35am.
Former leader of the Conservative party Iain Duncan Smith said that Boris Johnson was “begging for votes” over the weekend after returning from the Dominican Republic to try to mount a leadership campaign.
Speaking to Andrew Marr on LBC, he said: “I think the problem when Boris came in was: one, Boris had to do it completely unexpectedly. He didn’t make plans. He didn’t have a team. He was expecting I think when he arrived there would be at least 150 people claiming it. And that would grow to the majority that didn’t happen, suddenly they find themselves fighting and begging people for votes.
“That was really humiliating. And then when Rishi and the other said, no, the only deal we make with you is if you’ll serve us, not the other way around, and that cost didn’t go to him.”
This is Harry Taylor taking over from Andrew Sparrow for the rest of this evening.
Andrew Sparrow
Here are tweets from two academics on the Conservative party’s prospects under Rishi Sunak.
This is from Prof. Tim Bale, who has written several books on the modern Conservative party.
And this is from Prof. Matt Goodwinwho has written books mainly on populism and the radical right.
So many things lined up against Rishi. Divided party. Unhappy place. Inflation. Energy. Interest rates. Big cuts are expected. There is no end in sight in Ukraine. No party in history has won 5 consecutive elections. But, you know, for some reason, my gut tells me that Rishi might surprise us all
— Matt Goodwin (@GoodwinMJ) October 24, 2022
That’s all from me for today. My colleague Harry Taylor taking over now.
This is from Jeremy Corbynformer Labor leader, for Rishi Sunak’s election as Conservative leader and future prime minister.
Rishi Sunak’s 90 second statement reflects a Conservative Party with no plan to fix the many crises they have created.
No idea. No conviction. No mandate.
This government has a simple choice: embrace the transformative change this country needs or get out of the way.
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) October 24, 2022
Mark Drakeford also offered “llongyfarchiadau” (congratulations) to Rishi Sunak.
compliments @RishiSunak. The UK desperately needs a period of stability and cooperation to focus on the many challenges we face.
I hope we will be able to work constructively together to support people in these difficult times in a way that your predecessors did not allow.
— Mark Drakeford (@primeminister) October 24, 2022
Drakeford says he hopes Rishi Sunak will work “constructively” with his administration. Relations cannot be much worse than they were under Liz Truss. During the Tory leadership contest in the summer, Truss said Nicola Sturgeon was an “attention seeker” who was best ignored and once she became prime minister, Truss acted on his own advice, refusing to make the usual appeals of courtesy to the Scottish and Welsh First Ministers on her appointment.
YouGov has published a new poll which suggests Keir Starmer is seen as likely to make the best prime minister by voters in three times as many constituencies as Rishi Sunak. Overall, 38% of respondents said Starmer would be the best, while 29% said Sunak would be the best. And seat-by-seat figures (produced by an MRP [multilevel regression and post-stratification] analysis) suggest that Sunak was not ahead in any of the “red wall” Labor seats won by Boris Johnson at the last election.
And this is from Leo Varadkar, Irish Deputy Prime Minister. Varadkar, who was prime minister (Irish prime minister) for three years and will take the post again as part of a coalition deal, is himself of Indian origin.
compliments @RishiSunak to become Chairman and Prime Minister of the Conservative Party. You have worked hard to achieve this. These are challenging times of war, inflation, global uncertainty. I look forward to the UK working with Ireland and the EU as friends and allies in the years ahead
— Leo Varadkar (@LeoVaradkar) October 24, 2022
