Immediately after receiving the mandate from Charles III to form a government at Buckingham Palace, thus becoming the new British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak went to the lectern outside 10 Downing Street for his first address to the nation. And it wasn't with hot cloths.
"Our country is suffering from a deep economic crisis", derived above all from the covid pandemic and "the Puti war" that has affected the energy market and the global supply chain, he began by saying. Therefore, it is necessary to "restore economic stability and confidence, and that will mean making difficult decisions." "I fully understand how difficult things are," he said.
However, the prime minister promised, "the government will not leave the next generation, our children and grandchildren, with a debt that we have been too weak to pay ourselves."
Before making this statement, however, Sunak was careful to acknowledge his predecessor, Liz Truss, and her "noble" intent to grow the economy. "She wasn't wrong," she noted, "but some mistakes were made" and "not by malicious intent." "In part, I have been chosen to correct them."
He also praised Boris Johnson (although Sunak himself was singled out as the author of a stab in the back to the former prime minister), but above all to underline that "the mandate that my party obtained in 2019 is not owned by a single individual" .
Thus, Rishi Sunak promised: "Better schools, safer streets, control of our borders, protection of the environment and construction of an economy that takes advantage of the opportunities of Brexit" and, among other things, "creates employment".
"I fully understand how difficult things are."
