Rishi Sunak is the first non-white Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. On 25 October 2022, after several years of working in finance and then as a Conservative Party member of Parliament and Chancellor of the Exchequer( 13 February 2020 to 5 July 2022), Sunak was appointed as the Prime Minister of the UK.
Sunak was born on 12 May 1980 in Southampton, Hampshire to Yashvir and Usha Sunak,
the Southeast African-born Hindu parents of Indian Punjabi descent. Yashvir Sunak was born and raised in Kenya and Usha Sunak was born in Tanzania. They migrated to Britain from East Africa in the1960s and met and married in Southern England. Sunak has 2 siblings and he is the eldest. Sunak’s father was a doctor and his mother ran her own pharmacy.
He was educated at the prestigious Winchester College, an expensive private school. He read philosophy, Politics and Economics- a popular choice among future Prime Ministers at Lincoln College, Oxford. While studying at University, he undertook an internship at Conservative Campaign Headquarters and joined the Conservative Party. Sunak completed his MBA from Stanford University, USA where he met his future wife Akshata Murthy,
In August 2009 Sunak married Akshata Murthy, the daughter of N.R. Narayana Murthy, the founder of the technology company Infosys in which she owns a stake. Sunak’s CAREER IN Finance and his wife’s stake in Infosys have made him extremely wealthy. Their combined fortune according to The Sunday Times is 730 million Euros.
They have two daughters Krishna and Anoushka. Sunak is a teetotaller. His is a cricket. Horse racing and tennis enthusiast.
Sunak is a former investment banker and hedge fund manager turned politician. He worked as an analyst for the investment bank Goldman Sachs between 2001 and 2004. He then worked for a hedge fund management firm, the Children’s Investment Fund Management, becoming a partner in 2006 and then he also worked for Theleme Partners. Sunak was also a director of the investment firm Catamaran Ventures, owned by his father-in-law, Narayan Murthy between 2013 and 2015.
Rishi Sunak has helped break down barriers by becoming the first non-white Prime Minister of one of the World’s biggest economies.
Here are some motivational quotes by Rishi Sunak:
1) We rise to challenges, we will meet them, we’re well prepared for them, we’ll get through them and we’ll emerge on the other side stronger.
2) Having a lower tax, simpler, fairer, flatter tax system is something that can drive growth.
3) As a Prime Minister, I will make the most of the freedom that Brexit has given us.
4)Pragmatism, Fiscal Responsibility. A belief in work, Unshakeable optimism about the future. This is who I am. This is what I stand for. This is what it will take.
5) The scale of the challenges and opportunities before us are such that we can only begin to deal with them by starting with our values.
6) Mistakes were made, will fix them.
7) There can be no lasting prosperity for our people if we do not protect our planet.
8) In terms of cultural upbringing, I,d be at the temple at the weekend- I’m a Hindu- but I’d also be at the Saint’s game as well on a Saturday- you do everything you do both.
9) More generally, I strongly believe in the importance of fiscal responsibility.
10) India is a major power, with a youthful and hardworking population, and has an incredibly bright future. I hope that Uk can be a part of that journey as a close partner.
11) As you expect, I come from a business background, and the idea that a finance director would be somewhat not working closely with the CEO of a company is very strange to anyone in the business world.
12) From education to employment, housing to trust in the police, politicians from all parties must understand the different issues affecting individual communities.
13) From working in my mum’s tiny chemist shop to my experience building large businesses. I have seen how we should support free enterprises and innovation to ensure Britain has a stronger future.
14) I’m a first-generation immigrant.
15) My father is a doctor and my mother ran the local pharmacy. Growing up, I saw firsthand the difference they made to our community.
16) It is important that those who come to settle in the UK gain a sense of British identity and share British values. We have always attracted the best and brightest.
17) After leaving the EU Britain will find itself with more opportunities for economic innovation than at any time in almost 50 years.
18) I will always be grateful to Boris Johnson for his incredible achievements as Prime Minister and I treasure his warmth and generosity of spirit.
19) We are a country of Newton Hodgson, and Turing. Ours is a country of ideas, invention and discovery and is truly a national history.
20)Ethnic minorities are not one homogeneous political group.
21) In spite of what are unprecedented measures in scale and scope, I can’t stand here and say I can save every single job, protect every single business or indeed every single charity. That's just simply no possible.
