He is 42 years old, does not drink, and is married to the daughter of a billionaire family in India. Rishi Sunak, the Indian-born former banker, is slim, attentive, and impeccably dressed. One of his former colleagues described him as “intelligent enough, reasonable enough, and polite enough” (in the magazine tatler) escape from. Rishi Sunak is a kind of “anti-Boris Johnson”, who has developed the image of a sloppy and slightly overweight bohemian, with his shirt hanging from his pants.
meteoric rise
Rishi Sunak’s career was driven by his parents. His father was a doctor. His mother ran her own pharmacy. His grandparents migrated from Punjab, in northwest India, to East Africa, to Tanzania and Kenya, where his parents were born, and went to England. The values of this immigrant family, according to Indian traditions, are hard work and academic success. Richie attended Winchester College, an expensive private school, and then studied philosophy, politics, and economics at the traditional Oxford University. Then he traveled to the United States, to Stanford University, to finish his studies in business administration there, at a university not less elite, but from an international perspective.
At Stanford he met his wife Akshata Murti, the daughter of the co-founder of the software giant Infosys. Together they have a fortune of over $1,200 million. Sunak initially worked in finance at Goldman Sachs, then as a partner in two hedge funds. He is considered one of the richest MPs in Britain. In the summer, he was criticized by the popular press for wearing Prada shoes. “They were very old shoes,” Sunak said. His wealth is his greatest political weakness.
Despite this, Sunak’s career in politics has been meteoric. In 2015, he was elected Conservative MP on a safe seat in the Conservative Party, then was appointed Finance Minister by Boris Johnson. Even at that time he was considered a potential successor to Johnson. Scandals do not decrease: his wife would have saved taxes by declaring herself a “non-resident” in the UK. And it was revealed that Sunak still has green card An American, after returning from the United States and already serving as Minister of Finance. Its retention raised questions about his loyalty to Britain.
What is Rishi Sunak’s political line?
Rishi Sunak, like Boris Johnson, is a supporter of Brexit. The new British prime minister must be able, politically and intellectually, to renegotiate Brexit. Many believe that the economic problems of recent years are due to the departure of the United States. The kingdom of the EU, so Sunak must turn the tables, and that could cause problems with Brexit supporters among the Conservatives.
When he took over as finance minister during the pandemic, he promised to “do whatever it takes” to pull the country out of crisis. However, his generous economic plans, for example, with an aid program of 350 billion pounds, were the beginning of the large state indebtedness, as happened also in other European countries. Now he must try to plug the black hole of state debt with drastic cuts to public services. In the summer, he appeared as a financial hawk, a responsible administrative financier, who wanted to put order in the British treasuries and curb the state indebtedness.
The main role of identity
Rishi Sunak will take over as Prime Minister of Great Britain, and will be the first British president to come from a family of Indian immigrants. He said in interviews that during his youth he had few racist experiences. His family’s financial well-being has protected him from this, which is not to say that his promotion does not provoke racist reactions from some Britons. “(…) But whatever your political opinion, let us celebrate the first British Asian Prime Minister, and let us be proud of our country, where that is possible,” former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne tweeted.
“My parents immigrated here (…) to build a life,” Sunak told the BBC in 2019. And on Saturday I go to the Southampton Saints game. Sunak told the BBC in 2019. This ability to act on multiple levels will be what Sunak will need as he tries to placate feuding Conservatives, and British voters, who, after a series of scandals, look at the promises of another Tory government with cynicism and political indifference.
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