{"id":10095,"date":"2022-10-24T16:32:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T16:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fmetu.org\/?p=10095"},"modified":"2022-10-26T03:42:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T03:42:23","slug":"rishi-sunak-to-become-uks-first-british-asian-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fmetu.org\/?p=10095","title":{"rendered":"Rishi Sunak to become UK&#8217;s first British Asian prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The United Kingdom is a great country but we face a profound economic crisis.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s why I am standing to be Leader of the Conservative Party and your next Prime Minister.<br \/>\nI want to fix our economy, unite our Party and deliver for our country&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10096\" src=\"http:\/\/fmetu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/127292552_rishi-mobile.jpg-300x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fmetu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/127292552_rishi-mobile.jpg-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/fmetu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/127292552_rishi-mobile.jpg-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/fmetu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/127292552_rishi-mobile.jpg-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/fmetu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/127292552_rishi-mobile.jpg-400x400.webp 400w, https:\/\/fmetu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/127292552_rishi-mobile.jpg-160x160.webp 160w, https:\/\/fmetu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/127292552_rishi-mobile.jpg-100x100.webp 100w, https:\/\/fmetu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/127292552_rishi-mobile.jpg.webp 976w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nRishi is a British politician who has been Leader of the Conservative Party since 24 October 2022. He was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2020 to 2022 and Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2019 to 2020.He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Richmond (Yorks) since 2015.<br \/>\nSunak was born in Southampton to parents of Punjabi Indian descent who migrated to Britain from East Africa in the 1960s.He was educated at Winchester College, read philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) at Lincoln College, Oxford, and gained an MBA from Stanford University in California as a Fulbright Scholar.<br \/>\nSunak was elected to the House of Commons for Richmond in North Yorkshire at the 2015 general election, succeeding William Hague. Sunak supported Brexit in the 2016 referendum on EU membership. He was appointed to Theresa May&#8217;s second government as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government in the 2018 reshuffle. He voted three times in favour of May&#8217;s Brexit withdrawal agreement.<br \/>\nAfter May resigned, Sunak supported Boris Johnson&#8217;s campaign to become Conservative leader. After Johnson was elected and appointed Prime Minister, he appointed Sunak as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Sunak replaced Sajid Javid as Chancellor of the Exchequer after his resignation in the February 2020 cabinet reshuffle.<br \/>\nAs Chancellor, Sunak was prominent in the government&#8217;s financial response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic impact, including the Coronavirus Job Retention and Eat Out to Help Out schemes. He resigned as chancellor on 5 July 2022, citing his economic policy differences with Johnson in his resignation letter. Sunak&#8217;s resignation, along with the resignation of Javid as Health Secretary, led to Johnson&#8217;s resignation amid a government crisis.<br \/>\nIn July 2022, he stood in the Conservative party leadership election to replace Johnson,and lost the members&#8217; vote to Liz Truss.Following Truss&#8217;s resignation amid a government crisis, Sunak won the October 2022 Conservative Party leadership election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The United Kingdom is a great country but we face a profound economic crisis. That\u2019s why I am standing to be Leader of the Conservative Party and your next Prime Minister. I want to fix our economy, unite our Party and deliver for our country&#8221;. 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