Canada-U.K. relation to stabilize with Rishi Sunak as British PM, expert says – National | Globalnews.ca
Canada‘s relations with Britain, and negotiations for a new free trade deal, should get some stability with news that former U.K. finance minister Rishi Sunak will become prime minister, one expert on the file said Monday. “He will be much more traditional, much steadier —more predictable in a sense, in his foreign policy,” said Tony […]
Ex-British Treasury chief Rishi Sunak leads UK leader race; Johnson yet to declare – National | Globalnews.ca
Former British Treasury chief Rishi Sunak was frontrunner Sunday in the Conservative Party’s race to replace Liz Truss as prime minister, as he garnered the public support of over 100 Tory lawmakers to forge ahead of his two main rivals — ousted former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and ex-Cabinet minister Penny Mordaunt. But widespread uncertainty […]
U.K. PM Liz Truss faces busy week as politics returns to stage after queen’s funeral – National | Globalnews.ca
British politics returns to centre stage on Tuesday after the funeral of Queen Elizabeth, with Prime Minister Liz Truss signalling her priorities by flying to her first major summit and rushing out measures to try to avert an economic slump. Since the queen’s death on Sept. 8, politics — or at least the discussion of […]
Boris Johnson bids farewell to dramatic term as U.K. PM: ‘This is it, folks’ – National | Globalnews.ca
Boris Johnson’s term as British leader was a mix of high drama and low disgrace. But he left office Tuesday with a casual shrug of a farewell: “Well, this is it, folks.” The prime minister’s final speech outside 10 Downing Street, delivered before he offered his resignation to Queen Elizabeth II, was vintage Johnson — a […]
Liz Truss set to become Britain’s next prime minister amid soaring energy prices – National | Globalnews.ca
Britain’s Conservative Party has chosen Foreign Secretary Liz Truss as the party’s new leader, putting her in line to be confirmed as prime minister. Truss’s selection was announced Monday in London after a leadership election in which only the 180,000 dues-paying members of the Conservative Party were allowed to vote. Truss beat rival Rishi Sunak, […]