Rishi Sunak completes one year as Britain's first Indian-origin PM

Rishi Sunak on Wednesday completed a year as Britains first Indianorigin Prime Minister having taken charge at 10 Downing Street amid the turmoil of predecessor Liz Truss shortlived premiership and several domestic and global challengesThe 43yearold faced off with Opposition Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer in the House of Commons as his office was keen to portray it as just another working day without any anniversary celebrations plannedIn a video posted on social media Sunak indicated a similar sentiment Weve achieved a lot in the year since I became PM But be in no doubt theres so much more to do said SunakI know this year has been tough And there is still work to be done to help hardworking families across the country but Im proud of the steps weve made he addedThe governing Conservative Party chairman Greg Hands praised the party leader on his oneyear milestone When Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister a year ago today he took immediate action to support families with the cost of living paying half their energy bills Since then we have made good progress towards halving inflation growing the economy reducing debt cutting NHS waiting lists and stopping the boats said HandsBut for the last 30 years the Prime Minister recognises that there has been too much shortterm political decisionmaking politicians taking the easy way out ducking the hard choices rather than fixing the underlying problems The Prime Minister has proven he is the only person who is determined to change that he saidBesides external challenges posed by the IsraelHamas conflict and the RussiaUkraine conflict Sunak faces a heavy domestic intray of inflation and cost of living pressures as the UK prepares for a general election next yearThere is an antiincumbency factor playing against the Conservatives which trail between 15 and 20 points behind Labour in opinion polls a gap that hasnt moved much during Sunaks year in officeIn September 2022 he lost a Conservative leadership contest to Liz Truss who took over as prime minister from the scandalhit Boris Johnson Then Truss announced a minibudget that included billions in uncosted tax cuts and spooked the financial markets leading to her hasty exit His party chose Sunak to replace her and was named Britains third Prime Minister of the Year and the first of Indian heritage on Diwali day in October 2022He set five goals for his government including halving inflation which peaked at 111 per cent in late 2022 getting the economy growing reducing a healthcare backlog and curbing the number of migrants reaching Britain across the English Channel in small boatsThere has been some progress inflation was 67 per cent in September and the economy is growing albeit only by about 05 per cent on the year But the other areas remain dogged with issuesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever