- First address to the country since Downing Street.

- Liz Truss, at her farewell: "It was a huge honor to serve the United Kingdom"

King Charles III receives Rishi Sunak at Buckingham Palace.

Sunak anticipates "difficult decisions" after receiving from the king the task of forming a government

The new British Conservative Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, said Tuesday that his government's priority will be "economic stability" and restoring "confidence" in the United Kingdom and warned that "difficult decisions" are ahead.

Sunak addressed the country from the gates of his official residence, at number 10 Downing Street, after being commissioned to form an Executive by King Charles III, who previously accepted the resignation of the outgoing Prime Minister, Liz Truss, at Buckingham Palace.

The 42-year-old leader and the first Hindu to hold the post, inherits a divided Conservative Party, the economy on the brink of recession, and conflict with the European Union over Northern Ireland's Brexit protocol.

Truss announced his resignation on Thursday of last week and only Sunak obtained the one hundred necessary guarantees from his fellow 'Tories' in the House of Commons. In the next few hours, he will announce the names that will make up the new cabinet and, according to the BBC, no changes are expected in the Ministry of Finance, where Jeremy Hunt is expected to continue.

The new prime minister has admitted that his predecessor in Downing Street, Liz Truss, made "mistakes" in his scarce seven weeks in office and has promised that he will work to win the trust of citizens, although "difficult" decisions will be necessary for the medium term.

Sunak has appealed to his own experience as finance minister in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic to vindicate his resume while defending its legitimacy.

In this sense, he has pointed out that the vast majority obtained in the 2019 elections was not an "individual property", associated with Boris Johnson, but rather was the endorsement of a program.

The new leader has promised to follow this program, for example, to take advantage of the "opportunities" left by the UK's exit from the EU and "balance" the economy, but at the same time, he has assumed that he is doing so at a time of crisis "deep", in which the country has not yet recovered from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and is now facing those derived from the "Putin war" in Ukraine.

"Together we can achieve incredible things. We will create a future that is worth the sacrifices we have made"

Sunak has applauded her predecessor's "determination" in trying to meet current challenges -- "she was not wrong to want growth," she said -- and her "noble goals." "Some mistakes were made", even if they were "without bad intention", he acknowledged.

"If I have been elected party leader and prime minister, it is to solve it and the work begins immediately," stressed Sunak, who aspires to "unite" the country and win the trust of the citizens, who technically have not voted for him as prime minister. and they are now inclined, according to the polls, to grant a new majority to the Labor Party.