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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dan Bloom & Lizzy Buchan & Dave Burke

Rishi Sunak says he WON'T call early election after winning without a single vote

Rishi Sunak has RULED OUT calling an early general election after he was named Prime Minister without winning a single vote or saying a single word.

Mr Sunak gave his first speech after being named Prime Minister - to his own MPs in private behind a heavy wooden door in an oak-panelled committee room, which journalists were kicked out of 20 minutes earlier.

He then hopped across Westminster to Conservative HQ - where he also didn't speak in public outside. But he gave his first statement as PM at a lectern in the building.

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