Rishi Sunak, the first Indian chief executive in the history of the United Kingdom, He has proven to be an efficient conservative prime minister with a particular focus on the economy, whose style, however, does not resonate with the electorate.
His personal approval has also always trended downward: a recent YouGov poll attributes him a popularity of 20%, while 55% dislike it.
The 44-year-old leader is proud of his economic achievements in his less than 20 months in Government, such as achieving reduce inflation from more than 11% in 2022 to 2.3% today.
During the campaign he will undoubtedly mention again – as he did this Wednesday when announcing elections – that he managed to get Parliament, where he has an absolute majority, to approve the controversial law that designates Rwanda as a safe country to send potential refugees who arrive clandestinely through the English Channel.
An Economy Minister praised during the covid pandemic
A deputy since 2015 in the House of Commons (lower), Sunak was Minister of the Economy from February 13, 2020 until his resignation on July 5, 2022, in protest at Boris Johnson’s management.
During that stage in the Government, he was praised for his employment protection plan during the pandemic, but his image was tarnished by having been fined, along with his boss, for participate in one of the parties that violated anti-covid regulations in the Downing Street offices, for which he apologized although he always defended that he was only passing through.
Before becoming minister, he was head of the Treasury since July 2019four years after winning his seat for the Richmond constituency in the county of Yorkshire (northern England).
Raised in the city of Southampton (south English), Rishi Sunak is the son of a doctor and a pharmacist, and the grandson of immigrants from the Indian region of Punjab, who came to the United Kingdom in the sixties from East Africa.
Rishi Sunak is the son of a doctor and a pharmacist, and the grandson of immigrants from the Indian region of Punjab.
The eldest of three brothers, he was educated at the elite private school in Winchester and, as is typical among the British political class, He graduated in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE, in English) from the English University of Oxford.
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