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Rishi Sunak: UK’s ex-Treasury chief gets 2nd shot at PM job

FILE - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during his first Cabinet meeting flanked by his new Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, centre right, after a reshuffle the day before, inside 10 Downing Street, in London, Feb. 14, 2020. Boris Johnson’s bluster couldn’t hide the facts: He didn’t have the votes to win the Conservative Party leadership contest and stage a political comeback just weeks after being forced out as prime minister. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool, File) FILE - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during his first Cabinet meeting flanked by his new Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, centre right, after a reshuffle the day before, inside 10 Downing Street, in London, Feb. 14, 2020. Boris Johnson’s bluster couldn’t hide the facts: He didn’t have the votes to win the Conservative Party leadership contest and stage a political comeback just weeks after being forced out as prime minister. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool, File) Conservative Party leadership candidate Rishi Sunak leaves the campaign office in London, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. Sunak ran for Britain’s top job and lost. Now he’s back with a second chance to become prime minister. (AP Photo/Aberto Pezzali) FILE - Liz Truss, right, looks across with Rishi Sunak at left, at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London, Monday Sept. 5, 2022. Sunak ran for Britain’s top job and lost. Now he’s back with a second chance to become prime minister. (Stefan Rousseau/Pool Photo via AP, File) FILE - Liz Truss, right, and Rishi Sunak on stage after a Conservative leadership election hustings at Wembley Arena in London, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. Sunak ran for Britain’s top job and lost. Now he’s back with a second chance to become prime minister. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File) FILE - Rishi Sunak addresses Conservative Party members during a Conservative leadership election hustings at the NEC, Birmingham, England, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. Sunak ran for Britain’s top job and lost. Now he’s back with a second chance to become prime minister. (AP Photo/Rui Vieira, File) FILE - Rishi Sunak meets supporters as he arrives to attend a Conservative Party leadership election hustings at the NEC, Birmingham, England, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. Sunak ran for Britain’s top job and lost. Now he’s back with a second chance to become prime minister. (AP Photo/Rui Vieira, File) FILE - A new mural showing the two Conservative leadership contestants Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss appears on a wall in Belfast City Centre, Northern Ireland, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. Sunak ran for Britain’s top job and lost. Now he’s back with a second chance to become prime minister. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, File) FILE- Priti Patel, Britain's Home Secretary, right with Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer, centre and Oliver Dowden Minister without Portfolio listen to Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson making his keynote speech at the Conservative party conference in Manchester, England, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021. Sunak ran for Britain’s top job and lost. Now he’s back with a second chance to become prime minister. (AP Photo/Jon Super, File) FILE - Britain's Chancellor Rishi Sunak sips a drink, as he attends a speed mentoring session for young people, during the launch of the government's Kickstart scheme aimed at helping young people into work as the labour market remains affected by the coronavirus pandemic, in Canary Wharf, London, Wednesday Sept. 2, 2020. Sunak ran for Britain’s top job and lost. Now he’s back with a second chance to become prime minister. (Daniel Leal-Olivas/Pool Photo via AP, File) FILE Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak speaks during a press conference following the 2021 Budget, in 10 Downing Street, London, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Sunak ran for Britain’s top job and lost. Now he’s back with a second chance to become prime minister. (Tolga Akmen/Pool Photo via AP, FIle) FILE - Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, left, and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak visit the headquarters of Octopus Energy in London, Monday Oct. 5, 2020. Sunak ran for Britain’s top job and lost. Now he’s back with a second chance to become prime minister. (Leon Neal/Pool via AP, File) FILE - Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak stands outside 11 Downing Street to join in the nationwide Clap for Carers to recognise and support National Health Service (NHS) workers and carers fighting the coronavirus pandemic, in London, Thursday, May 21, 2020. Sunak ran for Britain’s top job and lost. Now he’s back with a second chance to become prime minister. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File) FILE - Britain's Chancellor Rishi Sunak, left, looks as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson gives a press conference about the ongoing situation with the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak inside 10 Downing Street in London, Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Sunak ran for Britain’s top job and lost. Now he’s back with a second chance to become prime minister. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool, File) FILE - Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak stands outside No 11 Downing Street as he holds the traditional red box that contains the budget speech for the media, he will then leave to make budget speech to House of Commons, in London, Wednesday, March 11, 2020. Sunak ran for Britain’s top job and lost. Now he’s back with a second chance to become prime minister. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File) FILE - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during his first Cabinet meeting flanked by his new Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, centre right, after a reshuffle the day before, inside 10 Downing Street, in London, Friday, Feb. 14, 2020. Sunak ran for Britain’s top job and lost. Now he’s back with a second chance to become prime minister. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool, File) FILE - Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak holds a press conference in the Downing Street briefing room, London, Thursday Feb. 3, 2022. Sunak ran for Britain’s top job and lost. Now he’s back with a second chance to become prime minister. (Justin Tallis/Pool via AP, File) FILE -British newly appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak leaves 10 Downing Street, where he was given the job by Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in London, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020. Sunak ran for Britain’s top job and lost. Now he’s back with a second chance to become prime minister. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File) FILE - Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak holds up a Green briefcase as he arrives for a speech at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021. Sunak ran for Britain's top job and lost. Now he's back with a second chance to become prime minister. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)