the uk s formerfinance minister rishi sunak will formally become prime minister later on tuesday after an audience with king charles at buckingham palace. he was named conservative leader after his only challenger, penny mordaunt, pulled out of the contest. mr sunak promised to work to bring the party and the country together. it is the greatest privilege of my life to be able to serve the party i love and give back to the country i owe so much to. the united kingdom is a great country, but there is no doubt we face a profound economic challenge. we now need stability and unity, and i will make it my utmost priority to bring our party and our country together. so who is britain s soon to be prime minister? here s our deputy political editor, vicki young. addressing the nation during a pandemic, a month after becoming chancellor. you will not face this alone. rishi sunak helped lead to the government s economic response. the furlough scheme paid 80% of millions of people s sal
for the uk on the global stage, on the international financial times, they again get into the economic problems facing sunak, they talk about his capabilities, they say it is a call to action, we need a medium term debt cutting plan, they get into some positive signs, they say yield on gold has gone down and the pound rallied against the dollar, but he they say he has a daunting in trade ahead of him. well, earlier, ispoke to the economist david blanchflower who formerly sat on the bank of england s monetary policy committee. i began by asking what his shorterm economic outlook was with rishi sunak as prime minister. it s going to be very tough and he had the benefit of experience that he was the chancellor and he did very well with the furlough schemes and he did oppose what liz truss was going to do, so he
of the times which quotes the british prime minister on what he called barbaric russian air strikes against innocent civilians . the international financial times focuses on attacks on ukraine s second city of kharkiv, and oil giant shell ending its biggest projects in russia. french daily, le figaro, says europe is facing up to putin with severe sanctions, military aid and what it calls a muscular european response. the view from tokyo the japan times says the introduction of sanctions marks a shift in rhetoric and policy from japan. and the international new york times shows some of those fleeing ukraine for poland while reporting on the efforts of those who have stayed behind to defend their homes. wright, natalie, take us off at the front of the mirror, which is obviously a british tabloid newspaper, a mass market newspaper, a populist paper going for it the human line income of the humanity line here,