Sunak rules out elections, says mandate party earned in '19 not sole property of an individual

He said he was elected leader of his party, and as PM, "in part" to fix the mistakes made by Truss. "She was not wrong to want to improve growth in this country," he said. "But some mistakes were made." He promised his government would have integrity, professionalism and accountability" and promised to "restore trust". He struck a compassionate and friendly tone, as if trying to get the whole country behind him, saying, "I understand how difficult this moment is".
Sunak said he was "not daunted" by the challenges he faced and that he hoped he lived up to the demands of high office.
In her speech Truss highlighted what she considered to be her main achievements - namely having led the nation in mourning the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the two aspects of the mini-budget which were not scrapped: the reversal of the National Insurance hike and the energy cap. She remained defiant to the end about her radical ideas for the UK to become a high-growth, low-tax country, even though her tax-cutting policies to achieve that sent the economy into turmoil and left the economy in worse shape for Sunak.
The opposition has called for a general election, which Sunak has already ruled out. He made it clear he did have a mandate to govern, saying: "The mandate my party earned in 2019 is not the sole property of any one individual. It is a mandate that belongs to and unites all of us. And the heart of that mandate is our manifesto. I will deliver on its promise."
He came across as more confident and natural in this speech compared to his first televised address as Conservative leader at the party headquarters in London on Monday when he was widely criticised for coming across as wooden and deadpan. Reading from a teleprompter in that speech, he barely moved and kept the same serious expression throughout. Daily Mirror political editor John Stevens described him as "The Rishbot" whilst another tweeter described him as "the new Davros in David Tennant's Doctor Who".
"Congratulations to @RishiSunak on this historic day, this is the moment for every Conservative to give our new PM their full and wholehearted support," Boris Johnson, who had dropped out of the race for PM, tweeted.
Huw Merriman MP, who has worked with Sunak, told the BBC that Sunak would run the country like a chief executive would run his own office. "The whole mantra is about professionalism. There won't be these large issues that blow up under him as he is a very calm and measured person. We might be more boring as a government, but I think that is what people want. We have had enough excitement."