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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, left, welcomes Liz Truss during an audience at Balmoral, Scotland, where she invited the newly elected leader of the Conservative party to become Prime Minister and form a new government, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | Britain's 3rd woman PM set to face testing times

Tory Party members have voted Liz Truss in but the cream of her Cabinet ministers is expected to feature reality of multicultural Britain

07 Sep 2022 12:16 AM

Britain's Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party, Liz Truss, leaves from Balmoral Castle in Ballater, Scotland, on September 6, 2022, after meeting with Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and being invited to form a Government. (Photo: AFP)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Can a ‘flexible’ Liz Truss usher in ‘Global Britain’?

Long the front-runner in the race to replace Boris Johnson, Ms Truss is the Conservatives’ fourth Prime Minister since the 2015 election

07 Sep 2022 12:05 AM

New Conservative Party leader and Britain's Prime Minister-elect Liz Truss delivers a speech at an event to announce the winner of the Conservative Party leadership contest in central London on September 5, 2022. - Truss is the UK's third female prime minister following Theresa May and Margaret Thatcher. The 47-year-old has consistently enjoyed overwhelming support over 42-year-old Sunak in polling of the estimated 200,000 Tory members who were eligible to vote.

Liz Truss to be next UK PM after winning party vote

The foreign secretary beat her rival, former finance minister Rishi Sunak, by 81,326 votes to 60,399

05 Sep 2022 5:31 PM

Farrukh Dhondy | Who’s really fit to be British? Shades of racism pop up in PM race

There may be many reasons to prefer Liz Untrussworthy to Hedgie Soon-to-go, but Rishi’s race has not been openly acknowledged as one of them

03 Sep 2022 12:05 AM

Conservative party leadership contender Liz Truss. (Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Cosying up to Liz… To get a Cabinet job, or become a lord!

Offering my flattery to Liz Truss may at last fulfil my long-standing ambition to be a member of Britain’s House of Lords

27 Aug 2022 12:02 AM

Kishwar Desai | Only William-Kate smelling like roses; The Rishi and Liz Show continues...

Rishi Sunak finds himself in an unfamiliar rank of being second, while Liz Truss is slowly moving up

15 Aug 2022 12:14 AM

Sunanda K Datta-Ray | UK bristles over migration, race as Sunak, Truss battle

It must be explained that Britons are not choosing a new government at this juncture

04 Aug 2022 1:20 AM

Conservative party leadership contender Liz Truss. (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | With just 2 left in Tories’ PM race... Can Brutus be crowned Ceasar?

If you are reading this anywhere in the world apart from the UK, you will be spared the 'news' about the rivalry between these candidates

23 Jul 2022 1:31 AM

Shobhaa De | Will Dishy Rishi end up as India’s damaad at No. 10?

Even if Dishy Rishi does make it to 10 Downing Street, please, please remember… technically, he ain’t one of us!

23 Jul 2022 12:50 AM

Conservative party leadership contender Liz Truss looks on before the live television debate for the candidates for leadership of the Conservative party, hosted by Channel 4 in London, Friday, July 15, 2022. (AP)

Kishwar Desai | In race to elect next UK PM, are women meant to steal Liz’s votes?

Some rumours are floating around that a few of these candidates were selected in order to ensure that Liz Truss does not make it

17 Jul 2022 11:55 PM

Farrukh Dhondy | If Conservatives pick ‘ethnic’ PM, will racism in Britain be less?

Gentle reader, it seemed and even now is quite possible that one of these ethnic candidates will be the next Prime Minister of the UK

16 Jul 2022 11:55 PM

Britain's prime minister Boris Johnson leaves after a virtual press conference at Downing Street. (AFP file photo)

Farrukh Dhondy | So, you're telling me there is no corruption in Vilayat?

This British government’s corruption has taken advantage of the coronavirus crisis to hand billions of pounds to their cronies

12 Sep 2020 3:16 PM

Britain’s Finance minister Rishi Sunak said that hundreds of thousands of people have already lost their jobs, and sadly in the coming months many more will. (AP Photo)

UK economy slips into recession with record 20.4% contraction, job loss fears mount

Today’s figures confirm that hard times are here, finance minister Rishi Sunak said

12 Aug 2020 4:28 PM

British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak (Photo- AP)

Infosys among UK firms accessing Rishi Sunak’s Covid19 job saving scheme

Infosys has furloughed 3 percent of its UK workforce

01 Jun 2020 9:28 AM

UK's covid19 job saving scheme to taper off from August, says Rishi Sunak. (AP Photo)

Rishi Sunak sets out plans to taper off UK's Ccovid19 job saving scheme from August

From July 1, employers will have maximum flexibility to decide to bring back employees for a number of days per week

30 May 2020 3:13 PM

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak (L) and Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson (R) attend a news conference addressing the government's response to the novel coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak, inside 10 Downing Street in London. AFP Photo

UK unveils 330 billion pounds relief package to tackle Covid19 outbreak

The Chancellor of the Exchequer joined British Prime Minister Boris Johnson during his daily briefing from 10 Downing Street in London

18 Mar 2020 11:08 AM

Johnson, who has in the past described himself as a "son-in-law of India" by virtue of his now estranged wife Marina Wheeler's Indian mother - Dip Kaur, has stressed that the UK's relationship with India must run deeper than just trade. (Photo: AFP)

Infosys founder Narayana Murthy's son-in-law in Boris Johnson's cabinet

As the face of hard Brexit in the ruling Conservative Party, Johnson has pledged to get Britain out of the EU within deadline of October 31.

25 Jul 2019 10:53 AM

Indian-origin lawmaker and son-in-law of Infosys co founder Narayan Murthy, Rishi Sunak was inducted into British PM Theresa May’s government in the reshuffle of her top team of ministers and secretaries on Monday. (Photo: Screengrab/Youtube)

Narayana Murthy's son-in-law inducted in Theresa May's top team

Rishi Sunak has been appointed as an under secretary of state in Britain's Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

10 Jan 2018 11:15 AM

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