Rishi Sunak vows to fix things for Britain

Unlike Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak didn’t skirt around the circumstances of the changing of the guard in No 10. His address on arriving in Downing Street as the new Prime Minister was very to the point. He paid tribute to his predecessor’s ‘noble aim’ of wanting to improve growth and create change, but added: 

‘But some mistakes were made. Not borne of ill will, or bad in tensions – quite the opposite in fact – but mistakes nonetheless. And I have been elected as leader of my party and your Prime Minister, in part, to try to fix them.’

Fixing problems was the theme of this entire address. Sunak said ‘economic stability and confidence’ would be central to his agenda and that there would be ‘difficult decisions to come’. That was a nod to the cuts he and his Chancellor, presumably Jeremy Hunt, will be making to public spending in the coming weeks.