Can Sunak become Britain’s first ethnic minority PM?
Amina Taylor
Press TV, London
Rishi Sunak, Britain’s Finance Minister, is the man attempting to lead the country out of the worst squeeze on households in three decades. Alongside Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, Sunak has been touted as a potential successor to under-fire PM Boris Johnson but just what are his odds?
One of the most powerful British politicians – Rishi Sunak, the minister tasked with forging a fiscal plan that will get the UK back on its economic feet after a rocky period of trying to navigate global markets dips, international conflict, Covid and Brexit. He is also regarded by some as the man waiting in the wings, should Boris Johnson’s numerous political missteps eventually catch up with him.
Sunak, the son of East African Indian immigrants has had a meteoric rise to high office since becoming a MP in 2015. Turmoil within Tory ranks might have helped but Sunak has been one of the few leaders to have positive polling numbers post-lockdown.
Despite Rishi Sunak's conservative credentials he is, after all, pro-market, pro-business and -publicly at least- seems to be supporting the Brexit project, there are question marks about whether the majority of his colleagues inside the House and the wider Tory faithful will see the credentials and not just stop at the ethnicity.
It’s not simply the lack of any public brand of political ideology or vision that has also hampered Sunak, it’s the attention on his wealth. A banker and hedge fund manager before entering politics, his wife alone has some £430 million in shares from the family business, technically making her richer than Britain’s Queen Elizabeth.
As the political games play out behind the scenes to maneuver a candidate as Johnson’s heir apparent, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss supporters hope their choice will go all the way but as any serious observer of British politics knows, the ultimate winner is usually the late comer no one saw coming.
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