“I’m British” Rishi Sunak always says “it’s my home and my country but my cultural heritage is Indian, my wife is Indian and I’m a Hindu”
For them, he is the ultimate traitor, the man who, with his spectacular resignation, caused the downfall of Boris Johnson last July.
For them, he is, on the contrary, the man who can save the Conservative Party, which plunged into an even greater crisis after the resignation of Liz Truss.
“THE Rishi Sunak is the ideal leadersaid the former deputy prime minister, Dominic Raab.
“If you look at the financial challenges we face, he is the one who has always been right,” he added.
Indeed, last August Sunak had predicted all the problems Tras’s financial plan would cause and had warned her that the fairy tales she believed in were dangerous.
His view was that the government should attack the economic crisis with “honesty, seriousness and determination”, rather than passing the burden on to future generations.
But Truss won that battle, garnering 81,326 votes to Sunak’s 60,399.
Six weeks later, the fall of the woman who wanted to be the new “Iron Lady” and the withdrawal of Boris Johnson from the fight give Rishi Sunak the chance to get his revenge.
His image received a serious blow when it was revealed that the his wealthy wife had saved millions of pounds in tax thanks to the “non-resident” tax status of Britain she had, even though she lives in London. But he also held an American green card while he was the finance minister.
With the glow of the ‘best student in the class’, always impeccably dressed and smiling, this ‘British Indian’ has had an exemplary career.
His family has roots in Punjab, but his parents came to Britain from east Africa. Rishi was born in 1980 in Southampton to a doctor father and a pharmacist mother.
After attending Winchester College, he studied philosophy, political science and economics at Oxford, before crossing the Atlantic for an MBA at Stanford.
He has two children with Axata Murthy, daughter of Indian billionaire Narayana Murthy.
“I’m British” he always says “it’s my home and my country, but my cultural heritage is Indian, my wife is Indian and I’m Hindu”, he adds.
Sunak worked at Goldman Sachs before being elected MP for Richmond, Yorkshire in 2015.
The following year he campaigned to leave the EU, during which he was approached by Johnson.
All indications are that he will go down in history as Britain’s first Hindu Prime Minister. It remains to be seen whether the profile of the former banker will make it difficult for him to win the votes of the residents of the “red wall”, in the north of England.
By Arnaud De La Grange, Figaro columnist
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