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Who is Rishi Sunak?

Rishi Sunak scripted history when he was appointed by King Charles III as Britain's first Indian-origin Prime Minister after being elected unopposed as the new leader of the governing Conservative Party on Diwali. The 42-year-old former Chancellor of Exchequer, a devout Hindu, is the youngest British prime minister in 210 years. He is also the first Hindu Prime Minister of Indian heritage in the UK. Sunak has been a member of the Conservative Party for Richmond (Yorks) since 2015.

Life and education
Sunak was born in Southampton on May 12, 1980, to Indian parents Yashvir and Usha Sunak in East Africa. His grandparents were born in British India's Punjab province. They migrated to the UK from East Africa in the 1960s with their children.
 
Sunak studied at Winchester College and read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) at Lincoln College, Oxford, in 2001. The 42-year-old also did his MBA as a Fulbright Scholar from Standford University in 2006
 
The Yorkshire MP married Akshata Murty, daughter of Infosys founder NR Narayan Murthy, in 2009 and has two children with her.
 
Career
Sunak worked for the investment bank Goldman Sachs as an analyst between 2001 and 2004.
 
He has also worked for the hedge fund management firm The Children's Investment Fund Management and became a partner of the company in 2006. He joined Theleme Partners in 2010.
 
Sunak was also a director of Catamaran Ventures, an investment firm owned by his father-in-law.
 
He was selected as the Conservative candidate for Richmond (Yorks) in October 2014. He was the head of the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Research Unit of the think tank Policy Exchange in the same year.
 
In 2015, he became MP from the constituency with a majority of 36.2 per cent votes.
 
From 2015-17, he was a member of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee.
 
Sunak was re-elected from his seat in the 2017 general elections. From 2018 to 2019, he served as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government.
 
In 2019, he was appointed Chief Secretary to Treasury by Boris Johnson and also became a member of the Privy Council. He was re-elected in the 2019 general election.
 
Sunak, on July 5, 2022, resigned from his post along with minister Sajid Javid, expressing a lack of confidence in Johnson's leadership.
 
Later that week, Sunak announced his prime ministerial bid, and topped the first two rounds of the race within the Conservative party. 

Latest Updates on Rishi Sunak

The Opposition Labour Party has warned the government against overly focussing on the ethnicity of the grooming gangs

Updated On: 03 Apr 2023 | 9:48 PM IST

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has released his tax returns, revealing that the British-Indian leader paid more than GBP 1 million to the Exchequer since becoming a frontline politician in 2019

Updated On: 23 Mar 2023 | 4:11 PM IST

The extra money will be used, in part, to replenish Britain's ammunition stocks, depleted from supplying Ukraine in its defense against Russia

Updated On: 14 Mar 2023 | 8:08 AM IST

British PM Rishi Sunak is on a tour of the US for a trilateral meeting with US President Joe Biden and Australian PM Anthony Albanese, during which he confirmed a hike in Britain's defence budget

Updated On: 13 Mar 2023 | 4:21 PM IST

It's a regime that is increasingly authoritarian at home and assertive abroad and has a desire to reshape the world order," Sunak told reporters on his way to the US Sunday

Updated On: 13 Mar 2023 | 7:44 AM IST

Asked if the Treasury will come up with a solution by the time the London markets open on Monday morning, Sunak replied: "The Treasury is working at pace."

Updated On: 12 Mar 2023 | 11:25 PM IST

As per Illegal Migration Bill, people who come to UK illegally cannot claim asylum, benefit from UK's modern slavery protections, make spurious human rights claims and also cannot stay in the country

Updated On: 12 Mar 2023 | 8:12 AM IST

The UK government said its framework has been designed in consultation with industry experts and academics, to help deliver stronger growth, better jobs, and bold discoveries

Updated On: 06 Mar 2023 | 7:08 PM IST

Sunak's government is expected to push legislation cracking down on illegal immigration later this week, with a special emphasis on illegal immigrants arriving in boats across the English Channel

Updated On: 06 Mar 2023 | 11:36 AM IST

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak traveled to Belfast on Tuesday to sell his landmark agreement with the European Union to its toughest audience

Updated On: 28 Feb 2023 | 4:21 PM IST

The agreement - dubbed the 'Windsor Framework' - was struck over the Northern Ireland Protocol, aiming to ease the trading issues created by the Protocol

Updated On: 28 Feb 2023 | 8:26 AM IST

A government source said Sunak had agreed the terms with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as they met in London

Updated On: 27 Feb 2023 | 10:43 PM IST

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday unveiled a decisive breakthrough in achieving a new deal with the European Union (EU) to resolve the post-Brexit trade dispute related to Northern Ireland

Updated On: 27 Feb 2023 | 10:00 PM IST

Ursula von der Leyen will travel to Britain so the leaders can work towards "shared, practical solutions for the range of complex challenges around the Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland

Updated On: 27 Feb 2023 | 8:06 AM IST

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Sunday pledged to give everything he has got to fix the lingering problems of Brexit and clinch a new deal with the European Union (EU)

Updated On: 26 Feb 2023 | 6:21 PM IST

The figures mark a contrast with the goal of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government cut immigration sharply, one of the main things the Conservatives promised to deliver after leaving the EU

Updated On: 24 Feb 2023 | 7:01 PM IST

Sunak oversaw a diplomatic flurry in recent days, holding meetings with parties in Northern Ireland and with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to lay the groundwork

Updated On: 20 Feb 2023 | 7:07 AM IST

The AI chatbot's first question was about the impact of technology on the global economy and job market over the next 10 years

Updated On: 19 Feb 2023 | 3:39 PM IST

Rishi Sunak called on world leaders to double down on support for Ukraine, saying additional arms and security guarantees are needed to protect the country and rest of Europe from Russian aggression

Updated On: 18 Feb 2023 | 8:53 PM IST

Rishi Sunak and Akshata Murty married in 2009 and the couple has two daughters Anoushka and Krishna

Updated On: 15 Feb 2023 | 6:05 PM IST