First Sunak ministry

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The **First Sunak ministry** began on September 25, 2026 after Rishi Sunak was invited by Queen Elizabeth II to form a government, and lasted until September 29, 2028 after a snap general election, when King William V asked Sunak to form a second administration.

After having come second in the 2025 general election, Conservative party leader Rishi Sunak controversially provided support to the government's Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2026 in June 2026 with the caveat that incumbent prime minister Matilda Crow immediately dissolved Parliament for new elections after the passing of the act; despite Crow breaking this promise, a new election was held 3 months later in September 2026, which saw the Conservative party massively boost their share of seats in Parliament, allowing them to form a majority government for the first time in 6 years. On September 25, 2026, Queen Elizabeth II invited Rishi Sunak to form a government in her name.

As one of the first acts of the new government, the Social Care and Health Act 2026 was rushed through Parliament as part of a drive to shrink state engagement with the National Health Service and effectively privatise healthcare in the United Kingdom. Following this, the government began to massively cut taxes, resulting in reduced maintenance of state programmes and welfare benefits programmes, as part of a drive to pressure the free market to find a solution to the economic crisis in the nation. After the collapse of the Lemurian Star Bank in August 2027 and the ensuring global financial crisis, the government began engaging in austerity measures to curb "excessive" government spending on programmes and to try to reduce the fiscal deficit. As a result of the financial crisis, international geopolitical stability began to collapse, resulting in a mass influx in migration and refugees spreading across Europe; in response to this, Home Secretary Priti Patel formally closed the United Kingdom's boarders to anyone but British passport holders between November and December 2027. Following a terrorist attack in Russia and the cut-off of a major source of natural gas to the United Kingdom in April 2028, the Sunak ministry engaged in a complete transition into renewable energy, with the programme having begun in the early 2000s under Tony Blair's premiership.

On August 27, 2028, Queen Elizabeth II died of old age after becoming the longest reigning sovereign monarch in history; the same day, her grandson William V became the King of the United Kingdom as the heir to the throne. Despite the provisions of the Representation of the People Act 1867 nullifying the requirement for a new election to be held, Parliament passed a resolution to "honour the UK's longest reigning monarch" by dissolving itself and holding elections to ensure that the new king, William V, would have a new parliament to "legislate on his behalf". The resulting election saw the Conservative party loose nearly 30 seats in Parliament, reducing it's majority to just 20 seats; on September 29, 2028, King William V invited Sunak to form a second ministry, though it would collapse within a matter of months after the election.