Rishi Sunak becomes first top Tory to declare his bid to be PM

RISHI Sunak tonight became the first Tory big beast to declare his bid to be Prime Minister with a veiled dig at Boris Johnson.

The ex-Chancellor said now was the time for "honesty" and laid out his stall as the "unity candidate" after months of infighting.Posting a slick video on Twitter, he said: "I'm standing to be the next leader of the Conservative Party and your Prime Minister.In the glitzy cinematic launch clip with the slogan "Ready for Rishi" he played up his work leading the "toughest department during Covid".

And in a swipe at leadership rivals preparing to pledge tax cuts, he slammed "comforting fairy-tales" that would harm us in the long run.

Of course he is 🙄

No thank you . Look at the mess you’ve got us in as chancellor put us in a ressession.

Toxic!

Terrible at the job he was in. Belongs with Labour Party.

Billionaire prime minister when we a going through a bloody awful cost of living crisis, I THINK NOT. he’ll never have any understanding of how hard it is to struggle from day to day. He only quit to make himself look good so he could run for PM.

julia_carta Who'd have thought.....

No chance for the early bird 😛

Thanks but no thanks

No thanks! Bout time we had some common people run the country

No more Tories!

Billionaire Tory no thanks do one 👺

Oh yeah cos he & his wife haven’t broken law, not paid taxes or totally out of touch with public. No tory MP is fit to run the country. Especially the cabinet minsters.

🤣🤣🤣

Millionaire divorced from reality, makes bid for the most toxic position in politics…sorted.

If he becomes PM, corrupt Indian business will use him as a door to multibillion pound contracts and influence. We need a PM who represents the majority not the minority. This is England and we can’t be treated like fools in the land of our forefathers

Backstabber

God help us .please no !!!!!!!!!!! Give the people the power to decide who should run this mess of a country

lmao no way

God!!!! This guy is costing us a fortune in taxes!!! If it was me, I'd rather vote for Screaming Lord Sutch of the Raving Looney Party!!! That would give me a lot more confidence, knowing someone was mad from the beginning!!!

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