Former British Cabinet minister Rishi Sunak said on July 8 that he is “standing to be the UK next Prime Minister”. He said: “We need to restore trust in our politics. We need to rebuild our economy. And we need to reunite the country.” Indian Origin Rishi Sunak UK Next Prime Minister.
The UK-born son of a pharmacist mother and a National Health Service (NHS) general practitioner (GP) father is an Oxford University and Stanford graduate. He is married to Akshata Murty, the daughter of Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy, and the couple has two young daughters Krishna and Anoushka.
From working in my mum’s tiny chemist shop to my experience building large businesses, I have seen how we should support free enterprise and innovation to ensure Britain has a stronger future,” Sunak had said during the Brexit referendum. He co-founded a 1-billion-pound global investment firm and specialised in investing in small British businesses before his entry into politics.
As the first Chancellor of the Exchequer of Indian heritage, Former British Cabinet minister Sunak made history in February 2020 when he was appointed to the most important UK Cabinet post. If the Tory party murmurings and bookie betting odds are anything to go by, then the 41-year-old may well be in line to make history as Britain’s first Indian-origin Prime Minister.
“No, definitely not. Seeing what the Prime Minister has to deal with, this is a job hard enough for me to do,” Sunak said back in October 2020, when asked if he had prime ministerial ambitions. But a lot has happened since, with Sunak leading the charge for the country’s economic fightback against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Many of the schemes he put in place as finance minister, including the furlough-based Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and COVID support grants for struggling businesses over the course of several lockdowns have proved largely popular. However, proposed tax hikes coming up from this April and consistently rising energy and cost of living costs have proved less popular within the Conservative Party base.
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