We have a new PM

[saundra]

Well hope he is more successful than the last
We live in hope sigh???

[Suff]

So, as per Theresa May, he has won by default and will have to live with a fractured set of MP's. Of whom around half would have Preferred Boris if they could have found a way to get him in and keep him.

Sunak is a millionaire in his own right, public schoolboy who went into the finance markets. He is married to a future Infosys heiress who is also a millionaire and practises robust tax avoidance.

A man of the people no less. We should expect great things!

[cromwell]

We'll have to see. Though going on the financial state of the country (for which Sunak is at least partly responsible) I won't hold my breath.

[Workingman]

So, it will be the coronation of Sunak made possible by 193 people in the UK.

Figures for those who declared their intention and released by the 1922 Committee show Sunak on 54%, Mordaunt on 7% and Johnson on 16%. Sunak won by having more than three times the votes of his nearest rival. 23% could not be arsed with any of them.

What we should not expect: 1. "great things" and 2. A general election and 3. Unity in the CON party.

[Suff]

I guess my sarcasm was a bit thick...

[Kaz]

The youngest PM for hundreds of years! I'm feeling ancient tonight, as not only am I older now than the PM (42), but my eldest son (44) is too

[miasmum]

Its when you're older than the pope you have to worry Kaz

[Kaz]

Its when you're older than the pope you have to worry Kaz

I can hardly wait!

[Suff]

The youngest PM for hundreds of years! I'm feeling ancient tonight, as not only am I older now than the PM (42), but my eldest son (44) is too

He is the same age as my youngest son.... Still not expecting PM performance though. He is, however, much more in line with Pit the Younger than Boris or May or Truss. From the wiki page on him. "He was also Chancellor of the Exchequer for all of his time as prime minister."

[Workingman]

The new cabinet is being built.

It is made from thick, short planks held together by unicorn hair string and mermaid scale glue. Few new faces just the same old and failed incompetents moved from pillar to post, and still room for Gove.

A cabinet of all the talents it certainly is not.