Making his speech outside the official residence of the UK PM, Sunak said that he would confront the profound economic crisis” with compassion and lead a government of “integrity, professionalism, and accountability .
Rishi Sunak, who lost the vote 57-43 per cent, said he was proud of the campaign he ran and indicated once again that he did not plan to serve in a Truss-led Cabinet if offered a job.
Rishi Sunak, from being the clear frontrunner in the early knockout stages of the contest with the Tory MPs, has been trailing Truss in most surveys of party members voting to elect a new leader to succeed Johnson.
British-Indian prime ministerial candidate Rishi Sunak on Wednesday pledged a crackdown on Islamist extremism, the UK's most "significant terror threat", with a widened government definition of extremism.