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People come to see the Christmas lights on the 700 block of 34th Street in the Hampden community of Maryland. The display, known as the "Miracle on 34th Street" dates back to 1947 and attracts thousands of visitors each year. Duration: 00:36
UK politicians come and go at 10 Downing Street as new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak forms his new government. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is one of the notable arrivals, retained from Sunak's predecessor Liz Truss disastrous government. Sunak's second cabinet appointment was his close ally Dominic Raab as deputy prime minister and justice secretary. IMAGES
Rishi Sunak will face one of the greatest challenges of any new leader when he becomes British prime minister on Tuesday, needing to tackle a mounting economic crisis, a warring political party and a deeply divided country. For more on his daunting task to rebuild stability in the United KIngdom, FRANCE 24 is joined by John Curtice, Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde.
It is a British cliché that a week is a long time in politics. Liz Truss proved it true on Thursday when she became the shortest-serving British prime minister in history. In a matter of days, her U-turn on economic plans that made global markets jittery and the resignations of key ministers prompted calls from within Truss' party for her to step down. But the shakeup at the top is hardly an outlier in the recent history of Britain's Conservatives, whose latest troubles have been years in the making. For more on the UK's latest political upheaval, FRANCE 24 is joined by Dr Philip Catney Senior Lecturer in Politics at Keele University. He describes the downfall of Liz Truss as all but inevitable. "Despite being at the Cabinet table for 10 years, in different roles, she didn't seem to have any understanding of actually how to run a government, which is quite remarkable."
She is the shortest-serving PM in recent UK history.
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