Rishi Sunak delivers one of longest first speeches by a new PM October 25, 2022 at 03:01AM

Rishi Sunak spoke for five minutes and 56 seconds – longer than the time taken by nearly all of his predecessors when they made similar remarks at the start of their premiership. The one exception is Boris Johnson, who spoke for 11 minutes and 13 seconds in Downing Street after being appointed prime minister in 2019.