Headline many South Asians never thought they’d see.

“Desi boy makes it to 10 Downing Street”.

#RishiSunakPM . #India

The Labour Party and SNP have been preparing various campaign attack lines for Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister for the last three years. That also needs to be factored in when it comes to the challenges he faces

Don't expect Britain's first hedge fund premiership to be smooth or enjoyable | Ed Conway news.sky.com/story/dont-exp…

#Turkey 's intervention in #Afrin has led to #HTS 's complete military withdrawal -- but locals allege it has retained a smaller presence under the guise of allied #SNA groups.

Once #HTS crossed the 'line', this was always going to be the outcome.

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From Ben Judah's Sunak summer 2020 profile tatler.com/article/rishi-…:

So…the Conservative Party blundered it’s way to the right choice but not before inflicting enormous damage on everyone and shredding its own reputation.

Rishi Sunak will be only the second PM from Winchester College. If that's not levelling-up, after centuries of dominance by Eton, I don't know what is.

1. Colleagues in British political science will vent fury at how such responses ignore how the UK constitutional order works

2. Colleagues like, well, me who work on crises around the EU's neighbourhood will point out how fast a constitutional order can lose public legitimacy

All this while EU imports of Russian gas sink rapidly.

Turns out that Russia needed the EU more than the EU needed Russia

A sudden MATERIAL oversupply of Gas in Europe.

Could prices go to 0? 🤯 A thread 1/n

Rishi Sunak may be UK's first Indian-origin PM, but he is Europe's third. See Ireland and Portugal.

If Sunak lasts 8 weeks and FF don't bring the coalition in Dublin down - the Taoiseach and the UK PM could both be of Indian descent. That's pretty incredible.

Xi's political strength is China's financial weakness, a 🧵

With his 3rd term now official, foreign investors sold a record amount of Chinese equities Monday, causing markets & the RMB to tumble.

As China becomes more authoritarian, foreign capital is voting with its feet.

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Central Committe of the Conservative Party announces the unanimous election of a new General Secretary

'Members should know' is a sign that Mordaunt and Sunak are worried about how at least part of the Tory Party membership might react to this, and where many Tory members frustrated with this outcome might go to instead

Looking forward to reading Russian state media's commentary on this new development in European energy markets

Woooops, next hour natural gas price turns negative

Something that I can been vocal about in recent weeks

I am told Penny Mordaunt does not have the 100 nominations. So in a few minutes Sunak will be confirmed as new Tory leader