that there is legitimacy that comes from a democratic election, especially when a political party has been at a colossal failure, as a conservative by the have been for the last 4 years. i really do not get to take us through the ringer with how many of prime ministers without coming back to the people to asked us whether or not we still want them to govern whether or not they're policy still reflect our policies. and it is clear that over the course of a period of 2 years or so, robert johnson as we prime minister, that a cause everybody up. but as totally deviated from that, which those who voted for break to the wanted from that which the, the concrete required, especially in imbalance in what the country will require respect to the pandemic, the economy, we see that things have gotten worse. so yeah, a general election would make far more says or would be the right thing to do. we shall see. what does happen obviously, is very hot debate and it will continue and sure. in the coming days for the moment charlotte was sherbie. thanks for joining us. thank you. sure,

let me move is $1400.00 gmc, this official wishes sooner will become the next prime minister of the united kingdom night was the next 2nd attempt at the top job in 6 weeks. he initially lost 2 live trust in september. so that was finance minister under boris johnson. hello, become britain says prime minister of indian origin. the age of $42.00 is also the youngest. in modern history. as returning office in the leadership election, i can confirm that we have received one valid on the ac. is that for elected as lead or the consent? yeah. now the announcement came up to penny morgan withdrew from the race and she said, this decision is

a historic one and shows once again the diversity and talent of our party regime has my full support. we all owe it to the country to each other and to richie to unite and work together for the good of the nation. and re 7th chose us from dining straighter and andrew. the sentiment might be that it's whether firstly the conservative party can come together behind richie's tonight and also whether the public to can puts believe and the conservative party and the conservative government after the ups and downs of quite an interesting yeah. well as a long way to go before the latter part of that question, you are sir, is answered because the u. k. public feeling is one of a fraught type of anger. a right now over the way politics is being run in this country. after a while they with most people would regard as, as farcical scenes both in parliament itself and here in downing street. and of

course promises that were made by a prime minister only to be dropped at the turn of a hat for her to stay in some sort of power when really that power wasn't there. and in fact, it was a, a stand in chancellor jeremy hunt quickly brought in. whether or not it was fully by list ross's choice or not is another matter. but anyway, here we are. now, what is, or if you rewrite history back to summer, if you look at it right, then the parliamentary party are here in the u. k. had decided that that soon act was the man for them. that decision was then put to the membership of the conservative party over a whole summer or, or of, of hustings all over the country and her, the 2 candidates that was soon i had who had won the parliamentary votes and less

trust who hadn't trust was the choice of the membership of the conservative party. and look what happened. now, to this miss moment, that's all being reversed. trust is the one who's going to go to buckingham palace at some point in the next 24 hours and resign. and we will have her. she su neck finally, coming over to the buckingham palace to be asked to form a government. and now also boys johnson, the man who, who actually started all of this in terms of party gate decisions made that were questionable, lies that were told and accusations that he misled parliament with some of his answering of questions regarding watergate and, and all the positive to place in this, this district, whitehall and a dining streets, which sure were in contravention of covert rules were imposed by, by this government in the pandemic. all of that and,

and that we have now a look at the city and look at the financial markets. this got to be circumspect, has got to be sure that, that, sure footed, in that sir richey soon arc has to convince the city in the next fiscal a report which will be on october. the 31st, the midterm fiscal report, which will have to be verified and checked and gone over, he hasta, really convince the markets that things are stable despite the fact that we have double digit inflation, high interest rates for mortgages and economy that's very different in style than before, so yes, this is a big victory for richey soon act. a pragmatic sort of operator, a man of finance, a man who has been a finance minister for the the, the, the air of the government, of johnson or johnson from february 2020 onwards. and then he resigned,

and that led the way to johnson a coming down and being brought down by the party. so how will things change? he a lot will be, am told by his, her choice, all ministers for the cabinet. and whether he has a broad church, whether he tries to bring in the right of the party, intermixed with the center of the party. that is a distinct possibility. it would be a positive sign for the conservative party, but they've got a long way to go. the labor party of main opposition has more strength now and it has in the past 2 decades. it's way ahead in the opinion polls the popularity ratings, the conservative party at tank, particularly under las trusses or a prime minister ship. and of course, andrew, as, as we talk, let's just give our view is also an idea that the foot sees gone up by just over half a percent or $250.00 points added to the market. the markets are certainly positive

about the news or over she, neck, becoming the prime minister in the economy is that really huge. you might see elephant in the room has to be dealt with from all angles. the public at large, the united kingdom. feeling the purse strings tighten up as inflation increases, the cost of living rises. a yes i, i think really suna is the best case scenario in this, in this crisis. and he's got an experience of handling extreme situations. he was the finance minister, as we call it, in the u. k. the jacelyn exchequer, a right, the way through the pandemic. a he came up with various schemes to compensate for his asses, struggling, going under that which were self employed. people are getting that their share of subsidies as well and basically making what it was regarded at the time as a, as

a good job. i. he always also amused to a pragmatist. he was, you know, very pragmatic. about a whole, very various a whole varied list of things. and then also is the factor that this man is young. he's for 2 years of age. he has ideas he's, he's smarty, they say a little bit too slick in some quarters. they find him a little too slick of but he is bright. he could regenerates, thinking within the conservative party, we're hearing from from one m. p a who was in on the 1922 committee meeting a not long ago in fact, only 30 minutes ago. and he apparently gave a really inspired speech to that back bench committee, and this wanna mp said it was the best thing he's heard in 30 years. well, as i say, the consensus has got a long way to go. they've got a,

a prime minister now, who's the 1st man of indian origin to become a prime minister that's particularly distinctive that will have a cause of very positive wave through the country. i'm sure he is also, as i say, the youngest and also of a man who may be very rich, but nevertheless has a feel for a popular a policy policies that are inclusive and may be. he's out of the establishment to a large degree. you may be rich, but he is not from the the sect all of eaten. he comes from a different lobby. but cynics would say he's a conservative, he's rich and, and he's playing the game. so he has a long way to go purposely in terms of defending or not having an election right away. that's

a big job. and because with the conservatives would be absolutely crazy. and there's another, there's another quote now coming in from what he said to the 1922 committee and he said, we must unite or die and deliver for our country. now that is, can put it much more strongly than that. he is obviously going to go for inclusion and he's going to try to bring the, the party together. some say that could be mission impossible as he wish in the indefinitely we will see him and certainly becoming ours. are the former u. k prime minister david cameron has reacted to the end of the leadership race on twitter, and he's offered his huge congratulations to richie suna on becoming p. m. he added, i predicted a decade ago. the conservatives would select our 1st british indian prime minister, and i'm proud to day that comes to comes to me. i wish the very best he has my whole hearted support. let's cross over to westminster, where stephanie decker is standing by. obviously,

rashid made his initial speech to the back bench committee. we are expecting him to speak publicly shortly. steph, their maps must be some size of relief that this vote hasn't gone on and on and on and on. yes, i think particularly from the public that you mentioned there that he has addressed members of parliament. i have one member of apartment with me, david morris. say he's just been listening in that room with the, with the new prime minister re soon at 1st and foremost. and can you tell us what he had to say and how was it received? yes, richie came in, so a standing ovation. everybody's elated that he's now a new prime minister. i do know that this mountain time. ready a location where he's meeting people like himself, he bitin and them he set out is, is fishing of what we should be doing with the country,

which is getting fiscal economic policy back on track. and making sure that people have been looked up to through these hardy economic times, who say a standing ovation. it's interesting because there has been a lot of back and forth and divisions within your party. mean you only a few days ago or so back in bars. you change. why, why did you make that change or about rashid last time. and before that i was team boris. if you like a and then i was asked to join team rashid, truthfully. but my, my allegiance at that time was with boris. you know, i do believe in giving the man a 2nd justly had the monday for 2019 to, to cover. anyway, forrest got the numbers that's been verified and he dropped out. and there's a natural thing for me to go over to richey killing, simply because he is one of my friends anyway. and he understood my reasons and, you know, he's, he's got this idea of bringing the country forward, which i've always been in tune with. so it was quite a natural thing for me to go across, but as you were saying about, of the colleagues going back and forth, you know,

the colleagues now i've got over 200 nominations, info, vicious, and actually didn't have to go to about it. and you know, you, when it comes down to the fact i'm, there's a lot of talk of unity. we've just had a statement by it from jake berry, their co could the conservative party chair are saying, this is a time to come together and, and time for internal debate to be well and truly over. is that going to be easy to do in a party that is incredibly divided? i don't think it is divided now. i really don't. i think that we've got. ready over the schisms of what happened in the past 6 weeks, especially with the many budgets you know, that did start to calm down towards the beginning of this very quick process. i think the reason that divisions to occur is that, that there was a lot of blue on blue and the leadership collection. and that should never happen. these things do, am afraid, but thankfully in this case, i mean, even when i was doing the television stations for boris johnson, i was always praising she son, i believe in the concept of team that can set of course and getting the job done on

his and what are we going to see now? what are the next steps to just break it down for us? no, but we're going to get, i think what we're going to see, you know, is the next many budget is going to come forward or fiscal staying, whatever you would like to call it. so i believe that that's got to be on the 31st, which is everybody say halloween, we know that feeling simply because of it. and economic, fiscal events and cycle, it has to be that day. there's no way around this. i believe i may be wrong, but that's what happens. i was of timing. are we expecting mr. snack to meet with the king today? tomorrow? like what i don't, i was in truth about. i'd love to tell you. i've got an inside track of what's going on that happens. i just know that he's no, probably phoned him. is we going go? if it's more ask him or i i let me have a look see if it is. and if it isn't please, it's nice. another interview, i think that we will have him officially asked prime minister latest by one. i believe it was all i can tell you will be definitely by the very quickly i don't

know. i really don't know. and what are them going to be the main challenges? forehead. i mean, this is like how you, where people are, say people have been saying to me, you know, we're sick and tired of the back and forth. they're just looking at their own interests that we cannot provide food in our table and you g, a prices of bills of sort 345, or there is a crisis. there's the recession coming. this is really serious. well, to talk to take on are you, is the party ready for it? you have to set everything. what we were talking about in that committee room and in the house to be addressed. that is paramount. i mean, the house is going to make you statement the, the markets have started to rally. the whole world is looking like it's going to go into some form of recession, but is all stems outs of these a european crisis that we're seeing at this moment in time. and i think that is a big problem that has to be result. i think most because settled on me won't take it, it'll take years, but won't south cycle will start to get back to some kind of normality. but in the meantime, we are looking. it's a hard time, not just in the u. k, but globally and where your response to the been multiple calls from labor, from

a lot of people on the street for a general election. but really i don't think there's need for it because the nature majority with this government. and okay, we, we've had to show, we say the schism of having less trusting 6 weeks. and, you know, the disruption of changing the, the mandate from forest johnson book, richie said that the go to be looking at the, how to, on the 2019 monday that we, we took photo, which is fair enough. so i think, you know, i'd love to saw gotten inside track on what's going on. i really what, but i don't. but one thing i do know is that we feel confident. we've got grown up at the helm. these go saw this country mar, thanks very much. for joining us, some hair is selling, the weight is over, the question mark is over. we know who the man is, is going to lead this country forward. but certainly as from day one, from that 0 our as so to speak, there's going to be very difficult challenges for him to tackle. many say that he is the man to do it, particularly because of his economic background and i, he has experience it, he's the prove is chauncey of the exchequer,

because there is a severe economic crisis happening here. if we cut through the politics that we talk about, the people who are struggling to survive food banks handing out i have more food, people who have jobs are now dependent on food handouts cannot afford to make ends meet. so very, very immediate issues that need to be tackled by richer snack, as soon as he takes off his officially stuff. talk about force in westminster. thank you. are interesting icons. the killed the top 12 becoming britain, 1st indian origin prime minister. so what kind of lead it will soon be? sonya reports the return of richey sumac. this time as leader of his party, he missed out to his trust in the last leadership contest, only to find himself less than 2 months later, back in downing street. this time at number 10, sumac is the 1st u. k prime minister of south asian heritage. indeed, the 1st from any ethnic minority in modern times. and hindus family came to britain

from east africa. and while he's rise in british politics marks a milestone moment, a reflection of the case diversity. it is his personal wealth and privilege and that of his wife that has come on the scrutiny effect. many believe that would have been the decisions he would make running the country. there are so many challenges that he has to face. first of all, of course, he ran the economy that built up a little bit debt that we're now talking about. and there was some episodes of discussion about his and his wife's tax affairs and the position of a green card which suggested, you know, i've gotten a check to seat in case things didn't work out in put his politics, which a lot of people didn't like. what's the next super wealthy wife's tax status played badly with voters? the parliamentary party regarded him as a safe option to guide the economy at a time of global uncertainty. see next financial support packages. businesses have quite coded lockdown, marked him out, his leadership material within the party putting him on

a collision course with then prime minister boris johnson. but they continued to work together through the various scandals that precedes johnson till his position became untenable and soon publicly parted ways. where johnson, let's make him a mix leader. he threw his hat in the ring for leader of the party campaigning on a place that he was the right person to manage the economy. my message to the party and the country is simple. i have a plan to steer our economy through these headwinds. we need to return to traditional conservative economic values and that means honesty and responsibility. not fairytales. hill is deeply critical of his predecessors unfunded tax cuts that plunged the british economy into chaos is mostly and lead to less trust is resignation. thank you. i now cynic faces the challenge of his

career uniting his party, stabilizing the government, and fixing the economy in a country that has seen more than his fair share of political and economic drama. in recent times sonic, i agger al jazeera. let's bring in on a man and he is the director of the u. k. in a changing europe initiative at kings college, london and josefina. from oxford. good tubby with us, sir on the program, the united kingdom is often described as having a multi cultural society. so i suppose it was just a matter of time before a political party chose sunday from an ethnic minority to lead them and eventually become prime minister. but did you expect it to happen so quickly? yes and no. i mean, i think we should under play the asset that is gone in to this from the major policies and actually physically the conservative to become more diverse, at least in racial terms. so it wasn't inevitable by any means. but i mean, one of the things that is really encourage me to days is how little people are

talking about this from which i get the sense that actually this isn't considered in any way abnormal. we've had before. remember a cabinet that was very ethnically diverse, so this was the logical next step. but i think symbolically, it is a massive moment for britain to have the 1st sort of i think minority chronister. and of course, throughout the day we've been talking about the challenges that united kingdom has in terms of its economy at the moment and of it's that sort of social structure and an infrastructure of sort of falling apart when it comes to public services. mister sooner has a huge, a task ahead of him, but perhaps he has an advantage as well coming from an indian, a south asian, a background because he can perhaps appeal and also communicate with a community that sometimes is pretty private and pretty quiet. well perhaps some united separate are all the things you just said in the sense that the scale of the economic challenge means sort of being able to, to the indian community isn't,

isn't enough. and in itself, ultimately, what his reputation is going to hinge on how well he delivers a prime minister apps a uniquely difficult time in our history. but yet, i think, you know, had a minimum of the south asian community will take note because one of their own is in downing street, they're ultimately, i think they'll judge him on his policies and there's no guarantee that his policies will re tool, their liking one of our correspondents just earlier also said he's not from the establishment. he is not, you know, he might have been private school educated, but he doesn't come from that white establishment historical establishment that we often associate with prime ministers. he also has a constituency in the north of the country outside of the southeast, in that red wall that went blue in the last general election. that's incredibly important, isn't it? certainly, from a geographical point of view and talking politics. well, i'd be careful with those kinds of generalizations. i mean, he did go to public school. i think he's when just the 2nd prime minister that might be mistaken on that socio economically he is absolutely part of the u. k.

elite, of course his seat, which is in relatively affluent north yorkshire is not strictly part of those red ball seats. i mean, it was a seat that was held before by william hey so it's been a conservative seat for a while. so i think we should over play this he's, i mean he different because he's not white. i think socioeconomically actually if you look, you know, given, well, i just said about the cabinet being very diverse. ethnically list was cabinet, wasn't at all diverse, socio economically. and that's something that politicians i think, need to start thinking more about. well, if he is rich and privileged and comes from the right groups that he's got his work cut out from trying to win over those members of the public that are fighting a finding it very difficult to put food on the table. paying the bills even trying to find a job. i mean, possibly, again, i wouldn't say that too far. i think ultimately he's going to be judged on what he delivers. he's gonna be judged on the degree to which he manages to protect the british people from the worst of the coming economic storm. and i think yes,

there was a fight over his wealth and over his wife, non domiciled taxes. i think last pretty much behind is now. i don't think that will be a major issue. i mean, remember, horace johnson was able to reach out to wall parts of the country and he's, you know, eaten educated part of the u. k. establishment. so i don't think that's as big a block as you might think. or she said i did actually, you might say steer as chancellor or the country out of the cove. it crisis does it helping businesses or you know, start up again after after the closure. he also has that as a huge challenge again, really doesn't take because of all of the other. you might say geo political issues that are affecting the u. k. whether it be breck say, whether it be the ukraine war, we hear this again and again from politicians. are they blame those? some of those issues are all the current financial state of the u. k. or where do you think he has to starks?

you might say worrying about the economy and worrying about the people at large or across the country to help them out of this problem. well, there are 2 big decisions pending, ah, i think it within a few days past the deadline for get a functioning executive in northern ireland and most that might sound relatively trivial. less tied up to the brakes that issue. and what the problem, the new prime minister designed to do by the northern on protocol. and of course, if he continues in the footsteps of his predecessor, there is the real danger of some kind of trade with european union that will make our economic situation worse. and of course, the big, the big one is on the 31st, and i think he's still planning to go ahead on the 31st, which is the fiscal statement. where the government is going to have to sit down and explain to was that they are, they are fiscally a sort of sensible, but also explain how they intend to pay for the large amounts of borrowing that has been taken on by the u. k. government, are they going to do it through tax rises, or are they going to re spending cuts or a combination of both? and that will be

a real political test for him because there i think there are real fault lines within his party as well as between his policy and the opposition lab report or to see how he coped all of that. i'm sure in the coming days, but for the moment and admin and thanks for joining us. smoke said like a conservative m p. mark harper explains why he thinks, where he says like is the best person from job. i think there was a big debate during the summer about the right way to deal with the economic challenges. and really soon that was very clear that the most important economic challenge that needed to be dealt with was to deal with inflation. inflation is making everybody poorer is what's driving of interest rate. he was clear that was the number one challenge and he set our plan for lower taxes, but only when we can afford them when the funded sustainable. that was the plan, he said, and i think what happens is change things over the last few weeks. is that the 1st one that context by her own acknowledgement when further and false. and there was

a market reaction to that and it simply wasn't deliverable. and i think many of my colleagues that had wanted to try about age of now seeing what she was setting out is the right strategy for delivering, for the public. you know, the public should always be a part of what we spend else on focusing on. and it's getting the economic situation source now that he's most important and he can bring stability and get things on sustainable footing, which is in the interest of all of the people we represent. very familiar were obviously with the economic challenges having service johnson he's focused on making sure we can deliver all 2019 manifesto that's the basis on which we were left it. clearly, some things will have to change. we've had a global pandemic. we've got in the way that we explained to the public, but that was very important to defend ukraine from vladimir putin is important to us here in person. but there was a cost to that, but we're seeing which is $1.00 of the government supporting people with the rise

in energy prices. but i think we're set our clear plan during the summer to deal with the economic challenges. and that's even more important with the increased challenge we face today. she see that will become the case of the prime minister in 6 years. indeed, barbara looked at a series of ch mulch with events that brought down successive governments. in 2015 prime minister david cameron was re elected after promising britain a referendum on the european union membership. his conservative party governing in coalition with the liberal democrats was splitting over europe under pressure from the united kingdom independence party. you kept ahead of the referendum in june 2016 cameron back to remain. but the vote leave campaign headed by new convert boris johnson. one cameron resigned a few hours later and negotiation with the european union will need of again under a new prime minister, the riffles are still being felt to resume one. the conservative leadership contest,

promising to make a success of bricks. it in march 2017 prime minister may set the clock ticking on 2 years of negotiations with brussels. that summer she called a snap election to boost her mandate. but instead she ended up with a hung parliament, the u. k. and the you did eventually reach a withdrawal agreement, but parliament rejected it 3 times and knows have a, the knows have a following a series of cabinet resignations, including that of boris johnson, whom she'd made foreign secretary theresa may also quit in july 2019. re enter paris johnson this time in the top job leading the conservatives into an early election in december 2019 under the slogan, get brakes. it done. he won a large majority in parliament and the u. k. left the european union in january 2020. but a new threat was emerging. the corona virus, the johnson government, hesitated before imposing a tough lockdown. later accounts from inside downing street, suggested johnson, and government officials had broken their own covered 19 rules on gatherings.

johnson told parliament that be no partying. i'm sure that whatever happened or the guidance was followed in the rules of holiday times, but in april he got a police fine, the 1st sitting prime minister to be punished for lawbreaking this summer after allegations johnson had appointed a top official. despite knowing, he was accused of sexual misconduct, dozens of his own, m. p. 's resigned. soon, johnson was out. i want you to know how sad i am to be giving up. the best job in the world less trust was the person, the conservative party membership chose to replace him within weeks or many budget announced by her finance minister, cause he quoting, had spoke to the markets with its extensive unfunded tax cuts. trust sacked, quoting, but his replacement jeremy hunter reversed most of the many budget, leaving the prime minister looking week last week she stood down after only 44 days in office, the shortest serving leader in modern british history that he bother.