London, NFAPot: Rishi Sunak, born 0n 12 May 1980, who is elected the leader of the Conservative Party on Monday, is officially declared as the Prime Minister candidate of the party, reports BBC.
Indian Origin Rishi Sunak was was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2020 to 2022 and Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2019 to 2020. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Richmond (Yorks) since 2015.
“Rishi Sunak is therefore elected as leader of the Conservative Party,” senior backbencher Graham Brady said, as Penny Mordaunt vowed her “full support” for the former finance minister.
Born in Southampton to parents of Indian descent who migrated to Britain from East Africa in the 1960s, Rishi Sunak was educated at Winchester College. He subsequently read philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) at Lincoln College, Oxford, and later gained an MBA from Stanford University in California as a Fulbright Scholar. While studying at Stanford, he met his future wife Akshata Murty, the daughter of N R Narayana Murthy, the Indian billionaire businessman who founded Infosys.
Priti Patel, a loyalist of former British prime minister Boris Johnson, on Monday came out in support of Rishi Sunak to take over at 10 Downing Street as the Conservative Party leader after her former boss withdrew from the leadership contest.
The Indian-origin former home secretary, who resigned from the Cabinet when Liz Truss was elected the Prime Minister last month, said the Tories must put political differences aside to give Sunak the best chance of succeeding as the new leader.
