Rishi Sunak wished his successor Keir Starmer well.
LONDON - Mr Rishi Sunak on July 5 apologised to the public after his Conservatives were trounced by Labour in the UK general election, and said he would step down as party leader.indicated that Britons wanted to send a clear message to the party by kicking them out of power after 14 years of economic hardships, Brexit upheaval and Tory infighting.
“I have given this job my all, but you have sent a clear signal that the government of the United Kingdom must change. And yours is the only judgement that matters.”The scale of the defeat made it inevitable that Sunak – the conservative party’s fifth leader since 2010 – would have to step down as Tory head as well.
Sunak saw a record number of his top ministerial team lose their seats, including defence secretary Grant Shapps and House of Commons leader Penny Mordaunt.Sunak – an observant Hindu who is Britain’s first prime minister of colour – wished his successor Keir Starmer well, calling him “a decent, public-spirited man who I respect”.
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