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UK’s new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak made his first visit to Kyiv on Saturday November 19, pledging to continue the firm support for Ukraine that was a focus of former prime ministers, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. He pledged to provide a new air defence package to help shoot down …

Labour’s leader, Keir Starmer, criticized the prime minister’s decision to reappoint a home secretary who had been fired for a security breach, and for his wife’s wealth.

Britons in Southall, a South Asian neighborhood in West London, reacted as Rishi Sunak was poised to make history by becoming the first person of color to be prime minister. Mr. Sunak is of Indian descent.

Rishi Sunak on Tuesday, October 25, became the UK’s prime minister following a meeting with King Charles III.   The tradition sees the monarch invite the leader of the party with the highest number of MPs to form a government, which since the 2019 general election has been the Conservatives. …

Liz Truss will become the next prime minister after defeating Rishi Sunak in the Conservative Party leadership contest on Monday, September 5.    The foreign secretary will succeed Boris Johnson on Tuesday September 6, and become the nation’s third female. She secured just over 81,000 to Mr. Sunak’s just over 60,000.   …