With no experience in foreign relations or general politics, Rishi Sunak emerges as the necessary leader of the moment
Rishi Sunak was born in Southampton 42 years ago to a family based in the United Kingdom since his grandmother sold her wedding jewelery in Tanzania over 60 years ago to buy a one-way ticket to the country that fascinated her. She took a job as an accountant and was able to pay her husband and three children with her savings. One of them, Shuna, studied pharmacy. She married a doctor, Yashvir Sunak.
Rishi grew up in an Indian community which is the largest ethnic minority in the UK, one and a half million according to the latest census, and which has some differences from others of Asian, African or Caribbean descent. British Indians perform better academically and are more likely to vote for the Conservative Party.
An excellent student, his parents paid the $40,000 a year at the private school in Winchester. From there, he attended Oxford University, where he studied philosophy, politics and economics, the frequent careers of contemporary British politicians. He earned an MBA from Stanford. While at California University, he met his wife, Akshata Murty, the daughter of an Indian billionaire. He worked in investment banking.
In 2014, he decided to go into politics because, as he explained, his parents’ example encouraged him to get involved in social issues. He was promoted by the party as a candidate in a white rural constituency in the north of England, Richmond, which has had Conservative MPs since 1910. He has a perpetual seat, a private fortune and a friendly, open demeanor.
Richmond Conservative Association members had hoped for a local candidate but were taken aback by his lack of arrogance. He stands out in his interviews by listening carefully to the interlocutor and really answering the questions, something that is not very common in the political class. He held junior posts in Theresa May’s government and Boris Johnson appointed him Chief Secretary of the Treasury.
It is one of the government positions that requires technical knowledge. His boss was Sajid Javid, the son of a Pakistani family based in a Bristol neighborhood with a reputation for violence. He had also made a fortune in investment banking. His political career had progressed very quickly in a party that wanted to reflect the social diversity of the country. But he collided with Johnson.
Following his election victory in December 2019, the guru demanded the then Prime Minister, Dominic Cummings, to appoint advisers to the head of the Treasury, equivalent to the Secretary of the Treasury. Javid didn’t accept it. He resigned in February 2020 and Sunak was promoted. He had to rapidly prepare the fiscal response to the impending economic disaster of the pandemic.
His subsidy scheme to maintain employment and business made him very popular. His detailed explanations in appearances with the messy prime minister immediately made him Johnson’s dauphin. As a politician for ‘Brexit’, because he wants a United Kingdom that is more agile than the European Union, and that believes in the benefits of low taxes, he was successful thanks to the barrage of government spending.
The discovery that his wife was not tax resident in the UK or his efforts to create free zones in the country’s port areas have tarnished his reputation. His firing and that of his friend Javid were the first major blows to topple Johnson. They accused him of being disloyal and having systematically expressed his ambitions to replace the prime minister on social media.
The collapse of Liz Truss’s government made him the favorite to replace her. During the long summer campaign, he insisted that his rival’s plan to reverse the tax hikes he had introduced, as necessary to preserve the financial reputation of the British Treasury, could spark a crisis. After the mess of the former prime minister, he emerges as the politician who knows what he is talking about.
Source: La Verdad
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