Rishi Sunak will become the United Kingdom’s 57th Prime Minister.
Yesterday, Rishi Sunak set to make history on Deepavali as Britain’s first Indian-origin Prime Minister after being elected unopposed as the new leader of the governing Conservative Party, following Penny Mordaunt’s withdrawal from the race.
Rishi Sunak has won the race to be the leader of the Conservative Party and will become Britain’s next Prime Minister.
Rishi Sunak will become British prime minister after other candidates quit the race to lead the Conservative Party, leaving him with the task of steering a deeply divided country through an economic downturn set to leave millions of people poorer.
As the leader of the governing party, he will take over as Prime Minister from Liz Truss, who quit last week after 45 tumultuous days in office.
Who is Rishi Sunak?
- Rishi Sunak was born on 12 May 1980 in Southampton to parents of Indian descent who migrated to Britain from East Africa in 1960’s
- His grandparents were born in Punjab province, British India.
- Sunak attended the South School, a preparatory school in Romsey, Hampshire, Winchester College, where he was the head boy and the editor of the school paper.
- He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Lincoln College, Oxford graduating with a first in 2001, he undertook an internship at Conservative Campaign Headquarters.
- In 2006, he gained an MBA from Stanford University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.
- Sunak worked as an analyst for the investment bank Goldman Sachs between 2001-2004.
- He then worked for the hedge fund management firm the Children’s Investment Fund Management, becoming a partner in September 2006.
- In August 2009, Sunak married Akshata Murthy, the daughter of Indian Billionaire, R. Narayana Murthy.
- Sunak was selected as the Conservative candidate for Richmond (Yorks) in October 2014. The seat is one of the safest Conservative seats in the United Kingdom and has been held by the party for over 100 years.
- In the same year, Sunak was the head of the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Research Unit of centre-right think tank ‘Policy Exchange’.
- He was elected as the MP for the constituency at the 2015 general election with a majority.
- On July 8, Sunak announced that he would be the candidate in the Conservative party leadership election to replace Johnson.
- On July 20, Sunak and Liz Truss were announced as the final two candidates. However, on Sept 5, Sunak lost Conservative party leadership election to Liz Truss.
- Then, Liz Truss was appointed as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by its Monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.
- Liz Truss quit after 45 tumultuous days serving as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, becoming the shortest serving PM in UK history.
- On 24th October, Sunak won the Tory contest to make history as UK’s first Indian-origin PM.
Important Facts about the Britain’s next Prime Minister
- He is the prime minister who has had the fastest rise in the modern era from being elected as an MP to becoming prime minister, after just seven years. Cameron came in at just nine years, but again, Pitt the Younger holds the overall record with just two years.
- When he meets King Charles III at Buckingham Palace, Sunak will become the first Hindu prime minister. He is a practising Hindu, but rarely talks about his religion. The announcement at the 1922 Committee on Tuesday meant he was named prime minister on Deepavali, the festival of lights, which Sunak marked on the doorstep of 11 Downing Street when he was chancellor.
- Sunak will be the first prime minister who represents a Yorkshire constituency. He was elected to Richmond, in North Yorkshire in 2015, a seat held previously by former Conservative party leader William Hague. The closest the historic white rose part of England came before was Harold Wilson, who was born in Huddersfield. However, he went on to cross the historic divide to Lancashire when he held two seats in the red rose county.
- Born five months into the 1980s, Sunak could be counted as the first millennial to enter Downing Street. The social-media savvy ex-chancellor is already known for his love of gadgets, owning a £180 smart mug, and using a trendy Peleton exercise bike.
Sunak Rishi will meet King Charles at the palace today where he will be asked to form a government, and become prime minister.
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