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"Rishi Sunak as prime minister isn't a win for Asian representation," Whittome wrote in the tweet, which now stands deleted.

After outgoing Prime Minister Liz Truss formally tendered her resignation, Sunak arrived at the Buckingham Palace for his meeting with King Charles III, who then invited him to form a government as the UK's 57th Prime Minister.

The humbleness of Rishi Sunak and remaining associated with the age-old tradition of the Hindu religion has certainly won the hearts of the netizens. Both videos are being shared massively by Twitterati.

Facing Sunak in the second stage - a ballot of the full membership of the Conservative party - will be Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, who obtained 113 votes.

The British Indian former finance minister received 115 votes in the third round of voting.

The son of a medical practitioner is, however, still one of the favourites in the contest, with probably Ben Wallace, the Defence Secretary, the current favourite.

London: UK Prime Minister Theresa May will face a vote of no confidence from MPs of the ruling Conservative Party on Wednesday. The vote will take place between 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., reports the BBC. The challenge to May’s position comes after the required 48 letters calling for a contest were delivered. May, who […]

London: UK Prime Minister Theresa May has said that she is preparing to present before MPs a “new bold offer” in a last-ditch attempt to get her beleaguered Brexit deal through Parliament in early June. Extra protections for workers are expected to be among the proposals, with the Prime Minister trying to win over the support […]

London: British Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday announced that she would quit as the leader of the ruling Conservative Party on June 7, paving the way for a leadership battle for the next Prime Minister’s post. “I believe it was right to persevere even when the odds against success were high. But it’s now […]

London: Boris Johnson on Tuesday comfortably won the Conservative Party’s leadership race to become the UK’s next Prime Minister and vowed to “get Brexit done” by the October 31 deadline, amid the political uncertainty over the country’s divorce deal with the European Union that cost his predecessor her job. Johnson, the 55-year-old former foreign secretary […]

London: Britain’s new Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, began unveiling his top team with the announcement of some key posts on Wednesday evening since taking charge at Downing Street earlier in the day. In a cabinet that was already being touted as the most diverse in British history, Priti Patel became the first Indian-origin home secretary […]

London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson challenged Opposition parties to table a no-confidence motion in his government to trigger a general election, amid chaotic scenes in the House of Commons after a historic Supreme Court verdict over-ruling his earlier suspension of Parliament. Johnson, who had to dash back from the United Nations summit in New […]

London: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will on Friday attempt to persuade MPs to back his Brexit deal ahead of what is expected to be a knife-edge vote in the House of Commons on Saturday. Saturday’s showdown in the Commons is Johnson’s last chance to get Parliament to approve a deal before the Brexit deadline […]