Rishi Sunak, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Rishi
Sunak, (born 12 May 1980), is a British politician who has
served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 25 October 2022 and Leader
of the Conservative Party\ since 24 October 2022. Sunak served as Chancellor of
the Exchequer from 2020 to 2022 and Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2019
to 2020, and he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Richmond (Yorks) since
2015.
Sunak was born in Southampton to parents of Indian
descent who migrated to Britain from East Africa in the 1960s. He was educated at Winchester College,
studied philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) at
Lincoln College, Oxford, and earned an MBA from Stanford
University as a Fulbright Scholar. While at Stanford, he met his future wife Akshata
Murty, the daughter of Indian billionaire N. R. Narayana Murthy of Infosys. After graduating, Sunak worked for Goldman
Sachs and later as a partner at the hedge fund firms The Children's Investment
Fund Management and Theleme Partners.
Sunak was elected to the House of Commons for
Richmond in North Yorkshire at the 2015 general election, succeeding William
Hague. Sunak supported Brexit in the 2016 referendum on EU membership. He was appointed to Theresa
, Sunak was appointed Chief Secretary to the
Treasury. Sunak replaced Sajid Javid as Chancellor of the May's second
government as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government in
the 2018 reshuffle. He voted three times
in favour of May's Brexit withdrawal agreement.
After May resigned, Sunak supported Boris Johnson's
campaign to become Conservative leader. After Johnson became Prime MinisterExchequer
after Javid's resignation in the February 2020 cabinet reshuffle. As Chancellor, Sunak was prominent in the government's
financial response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic impact, including
the Coronavirus Job Retention and Eat Out to Help Out schemes. He resigned as chancellor in July 2022,
followed by Johnson's resignation amid a government crisis.
Sunak stood in the Conservative party leadership
election to replace Johnson, and lost the members' vote to Liz Truss. After Truss's resignation amid a credibility
crisis, Sunak was elected unopposed as Leader of the Conservative Party. He was appointed Prime Minister by King
Charles III, the first to be appointed during his reign, on 25 October 2022,
becoming the first British Asian and Hindu to hold that position.
Early Life and
Education
Sunak was born on 12 May 1980 in Southampton General
Hospital in Southampton, Hampshire, to Southeast African-born Hindu parents of Indian
Punjabi descent, Yashvir and Usha Sunak.
Rishi Sunak attended Stroud School, a preparatory school in Romsey, and Winchester
College, a boys' independent boarding school, where he was head boy. He was a waiter at a curry house in
Southampton during his summer holidays. He
read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Lincoln College, Oxford, graduating
with a first in 2001. During his time at
university, he undertook an internship at Conservative Campaign Headquarters. In 2006, he gained an MBA from Stanford
University, where he was a Fulbright scholar.
Sunak's grandfathers were both born in Punjab
province, British India, and emigrated to East Africa. His grandparents migrated with their families
to the United Kingdom in the 1960s.
His father, Yashvir Sunak, was born and raised in
the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya (present-day Kenya), and is a general
practitioner in the National Health Service. His mother, Usha Sunak, born in Tanganyika (which
later became part of Tanzania), is currently the director and pharmacist at the
Sunak Pharmacy in Southampton and has a degree from Aston University. They married in 1977 in Leicester.
Rishi Sunak is
the eldest of three siblings. His
brother, Sanjay (born 1982), is a psychologist and his sister, Raakhi Williams
(born 1985), works in New York as chief of strategy and planning at the United
Nations global fund for education in emergencies.
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