On Monday, Rishi-Sunak was selected as the Conservative Party’s leader, and he will take office as the country’s next prime minister. The 42-year-old Indian-born MP with a Stanford education has had a spectacular, upward trajectory.
The grandparents of Rishi-Sunak were Indian natives. In the 1960s, they immigrated to East Africa and then to the UK. Inform us of the first non-white prime minister of the UK’s educational background.
Yashvir and Usha Sunak welcomed Rishi Sunka into the world on May 12, 1980 in Southampton. He read philosophy, politics, and economics at the esteemed Winchester College in Oxford. Then, as a Fulbright Scholar, he advanced his education by going to California to get an MBA. He performed this at Stanford University, an Ivy League school.
Sunak worked as an analyst at the investment bank Goldman Sachs from 2001 to 2004. He joined The Children’s Investment Fund Management as a partner in 2006. (TCI). He quit TCI in 2009 and joined Theleme Partners, a different hedge fund company.
Sunak was chosen as the Conservative candidate for Richmond (Yorks) in 2014, and he was elected as a Conservative MP the following year. Later in 2017, he was re-elected to serve as Richmond’s MP (Yorks). He worked at the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy as a Parliamentary Private Secretary.
He was named Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in 2018. (Minister for Local Government). He was re-elected to serve as Richmond’s (Yorks) MP in 2019 and was also given the position of Chief Secretary to the Treasury. He was named Chancellor of the Exchequer in 2020.
He announced his intention to succeed Boris Johnson as UK prime minister on July 9 after leaving his position as chancellor on July 5, 2022. But on September 6, he is defeated by Liz Truss.
After only 45 days in office, British Prime Minister Truss resigns. On October 23, he declared his intention to run against Liz Truss for the position of prime minister of Britain and leader of the Conservative Party. On October 24, he finally triumphs in the Tory primary, becoming the country’s first prime minister of South Asian heritage.
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