In light of the catastrophic economic crisis the UK is experiencing, British Conservative Rishi Sunak has been elected prime minister, succeeding Liz Truss.
According to an earlier article by Anaedoonline.ng, Sir Graham Brady announced the most recent development after the 1922 Committee received just one candidacy for the position of new party leader and got support from 100 MPs.
Sunak was thus proclaimed by Brady to be the new party leader and, as a result, the new prime minister.
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The ten facts about the youngest British prime minister in modern times are listed below.
1. Rishi Sunak was born May 12, 1980, in UK Southampton to an Indian family.
2. His grandparents emigrated from Punjab, in northwestern India, to East Africa, where his mother and father were born in Tanzania and Kenya, respectively.
3. He obtained his degree at Winchester College, where he studied philosophy, politics, and economics (PPE) at Lincoln College, Oxford.
4. After graduating from Oxford in 2001, Sunak became an analyst for Goldman Sachs.
5. In 2009, Sunak married his wife, Akshata Murthy, who he met during his MBA at Stanford University.
6. In 2010 he began working for the Conservative Party and he also became involved with Policy Exchange, a leading Conservative think tank.
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7. In 2014 Sunak was chosen as the Conservative Party’s candidate for the House of Commons representing Richmond in North Yorkshire.
8. In January 2018 he was appointed to his first ministerial post as undersecretary of state at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
9. Sunak became a vocal supporter of Boris Johnson’s pursuit of the party’s leadership, and, when Johnson became leader and prime minister, he rewarded Sunak with a promotion, appointing him chief secretary to the Treasury in July 2019.
10. In April 2022 Sunak was fined by the police for having been among the guests at a birthday party for Johnson at his office in 2020 in violation of the government’s rules against social gatherings at that stage of the pandemic.
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