It's Tuesday, October 25, 2022.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian worldview.

The revenge of the political establishment, the revenge of the financial markets in Britain,

that means basically the same thing, and it means Rishi Sunak is going to be Britain's

new prime minister, starting today.

Rishi Sunak was one of the contenders the last time the Conservative Party had a contest

for leadership, and thus the leader to become the prime minister and to form a government.

But recall that it was Liz Truss, who until today was prime minister serving the briefest

term as British prime minister in that nation's long constitutional history.

As we're thinking of worldview significance, there's just a lot here to which we need

to pay a bit of attention.

First of all, as you look at Rishi Sunak, he's the former chancellor of the ex-checker

in the Tory government, and the chancellor is the chief financial officer of the British

government.

That's a very old and venerable position, and as you're thinking about the chancellor

of the ex-checker, think about a supercharged United States Secretary of the Treasury, because

it's actually a role that is larger than that in Britain's constitutional order and having

a very long British history behind it.

Rishi Sunak is a product of the elite in the United Kingdom.

He went to the Winchester School, one of the most elite and one of the oldest of the

British so-called public schools, and in this sense, public means the opposite of what

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