Rishi Sunak Becomes UK's New Prime Minister

Rishi Sunak Becomes UK's New Prime Minister.

Rishi Sunak

Rishi Sonik has become Britain's third prime minister in less than two months - and the fifth in six years. These are the fastest changes to the British Prime Minister's House in nearly a century.

Since the summer of 2007, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Mr. Sonnick have all held the office of Prime Minister. By contrast, in the 28 years before 2007, only three Prime Ministers had been elected - Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair.

Why are the doors of the Prime Minister's House, called 'Number 10' in Britain, spinning so fast now, what is the reason for this? And could this trend of rapid change become the new normal for British politics?

A panel of experts opined on why it is becoming so difficult for a prime minister to stay in office.

Jill Rutter, associated with the British think tank 'Institute for Government', believes that the Brexit vote in 2016 was the first factor causing instability in British politics in the last six years.

"We can blame almost all of the instability on the Brexit referendum result and the Conservative Party," she says. David Cameron was a long-serving Prime Minister. Had there not been a referendum during his tenure, he could have stayed in office until 2018 and handed over 'No.10' to either George Osborne or Boris Johnson, senior Conservative leaders.

She further says that they destabilized Britain by holding the referendum. It was a serious mistake on his part not to do everything possible to win and to think that he was winning the referendum so he did not try to win it.

Mr Cameron's resignation after six years in office paved the way for Theresa May's entry into No 10. May spent three years and 11 days at Number 10, followed by her successor Boris Johnson for three years and 44 days.

Miss Rutter added: 'Theresa May was clearly in trouble for two reasons, the disastrous 2017 election and the fact that she and the party could not agree on what Brexit meant. '.

She says that the Conservative Party believed that Boris Johnson could break the Brexit deadlock, but he did not pay much attention to the rules and regulations when dealing with the EU on Brexit. 

It was his failure that ruined his reputation. That means his ministers can't take it anymore. He went to someone in desperation.

According to Miss Rutter, the direct legacy of the referendum was Liz Truss's end to the Prime Ministership barely seven weeks into it.

“The membership had changed quite a bit,” says Jill Rutter. He was ready for the message of ignoring political orthodoxy. But his election made the members of the Conservative Party realize that they had done the wrong thing in a hurry and that they had fallen into a heap of rubbish.

Vernon Bogdanor, professor of government at King's College London, agrees.

He said that the referendum has destabilized British politics. It has been difficult to establish proper relations with Europe.

But is this really what Brexit is all about or is there something more? Tim Bell, professor of politics at Queen Mary University, believes the trend may be a bit deeper.

He points to what he calls the 'presidentialism' of Britain's parliamentary system, or the greater focus on party leaders, as one of the reasons why prime ministers don't last long. Lived

He says that 'voters and politicians pay more attention to party leaders and less to the party as a whole - meaning that the leader is often held personally responsible for anything that goes wrong. is hanged.'

"It's now pretty much impossible for a party leader to lead his own party after an election defeat," he explains, adding that former Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn was a notable exception to the rule in 2017.

 Rishi Sonak is the youngest Prime Minister in more than 200 years. He has risen through the ranks of the Conservative Party in just seven years since he was first elected as an MP in 2015.

"Any MP can come into Parliament and make a big name for himself in a short period of time," says Professor Bell.

This development has destabilized parliamentary politics. There used to be plenty of levels to progress, but MPs are generally impatient to move up the ladder but if they feel things aren't working, they can say so on Twitter and rolling news channels. They will gather that 'something new needs to be done. Change - and that includes the leader. 

Some of Britain's former prime ministers were photographed together at the coronation of King Charles last month.

Professor Bell believes the rise of social and digital media has also made a big difference to how voters view politicians.

He says that in the past 'politicians were not faceless. But they were not the celebrities they are now. It shows how the voters see their politics.

However, Professor Bogdanor disagrees. He argues that the governments of David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill during the two world wars, William Gladstone in the 19th century, and more recently Margaret Thatcher can all be described as 'presidential' leaders.

He says that governments have always been presidential. The prime minister's power really varies with his electoral position.

Professor Bogdanor believes that Mr. Sonic can now initiate a new type of high stability.

"I can't see him being ousted in the next two years. There will be economic difficulties, but the Conservatives have two years until the next general election.

But Patrick Dunleavy, emeritus professor of political science and public policy at the London School of Economics, believes elections will be held before the two-year deadline.

"I don't think two years is a credible timeline anymore," he says.The testing phase for Mr Sonik will be next year's local government elections and then his first anniversary as prime minister, he said. It all depends on what the public opinion is about them in the meantime.

Professor Dunleavy looks at the shape of the current political problem in other Westminster-style systems. Australia, which is also a parliamentary system, has had nine prime ministers in 12 years, one of the reasons for what is called a 'spill election'. Because of this, Australia is called the 'Rebellious Capital of the Democratic World'.

(A 'leadership spill election' is an announcement by a political party that the leadership of its parliamentary party is vacant and open for re-election. A 'spill election' can also include all positions in the entire leadership. , there may be elections for Leaders and Deputy Leaders of both Houses or only for the Central Leader).

Leadership is expelled when members of a parliamentary party feel that their party leader is leading them in the wrong direction, or is not fulfilling the promises made to those who elected them, and they have Not enough supporters to support your position.

Professor Dunleavy says that the Conservative Party has gone full tilt towards a spilled election. They were threatening Cameron in 2016, they were used against (Theresa) May - she survived the first attempt but had to give up - they were used (in the spill election) against Boris and then against Truss. '.

"Now Britain has become a victim of in-supplement elections."