{"id":84,"date":"2023-03-15T08:25:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T08:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/computing.ashville.co.uk\/iaintest1\/?p=84"},"modified":"2023-05-24T07:45:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T07:45:33","slug":"rishi-sunak-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computing.ashville.co.uk\/iaintest1\/curent-affairs\/rishi-sunak-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Rishi Sunak – Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each of the consecutive Conservatives that we have called Prime Minister can often be summed up in two words: pig headed; dancing queen; bumbling oaf; literally lettuce. It can now be said that that trend has been broken with the new Prime Minister, instead being described with four words. The \u2018Lanky Twelve-Year-Old,\u2019 Rishi Sunak, came into office on the 25th<\/sup> of October 2022. Sunak, to quote Keir Starmer, was initially \u2018trounced by Truss who [in herself] got beaten by a lettuce.\u2019 Our first half term of the academic school year was under former Prime Minister (that\u2019s always funny to say) Liz Truss, and now we have Sunak for the second half. So where did Sunak come from? How did he get his start? And who will we have as Prime Minister come next half-term?<\/p>\n

Rishi Sunak was born on the 12th<\/sup> of May 1980 in Southampton to parents Yashvir and Usha Sunak \u2013 African Born Hindus of Punjabi Descent \u2013 who both worked in the healthcare sector (His father Yashvir works for the NHS, and his mother Usha owns \u2018Sunak Pharmacy\u2019 in Southampton). As Sunak \u2018boasts,\u2019 although his parents were not exceedingly wealthy, they worked hard to raise enough funds for Sunak to go to Winchester College to study Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (PPE –\u00a0 the variety that was not short during 2020), with the Tory lifestyle rubbing off on him when he joked as a student that he did not have any working-class friends. It was also there where he would meet Akshata Murty \u2013 daughter of billionaire N.R. Narayana Murty \u2013 who he would marry later, in August 2009. He would graduate with a first in 2001, after which he would work as an analyst for the investment bank Golden Sachs till 2004. He would go on to worked for the hedge fund management firm the Children\u2019s Investment Fund Management between 2006 and 2009 (the latter being the year he got married) before. He would go on to work on a new firm, Theleme Partners, the same year in California with some old friends, before becoming the director of Catamaran Ventures \u2013 a business owned by his father-in-law \u2013 between 2013 and 2015. He would have two daughters in 2011 and 2013 respectively. Sunak can be said to fit the bill of the \u2018rich conservative\u2019 (he can be summed up in two words!) stereotype, not only with his wealth in the business sector, but also with his wife\u2019s shares in her father\u2019s company, Infosys \u2013 shares that make her one of the wealthiest women in Britain.<\/p>\n

Sunak\u2019s political career is relatively recent in comparison to the likes of Kwarteng and Truss, only becoming an MP in 2015 for Richmond. Between 2018 and 2019 Sunak served as \u2018Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government\u2019 under former Prime Minister, Theresa May. He then became the \u2018Chief Secretary to the Treasury\u2019 under the Blond Baron, a role which was preceded by Liz Truss \u2013 the first time Rishi overtook the esteemed opener of pork markets in a position in government. After Sajid Javid fell out with Boris on a matter of principle, Sunak was bought in as the new \u2018Chancellor of the Exchequer\u2019 in February 2020 \u2013 and it seemed they would get on well, Sunak being the self-professed Star Wars fanatic and Johnson as well I think (after all, there can\u2019t be another reason he keeps quoting Darth Vader: \u2018I am your father\u2019). Sunak\u2019s time in this one gained the most public notoriety Sunak had probably faced. During ‘the lurgy’, Sunak was both admiring and disgusting: admiration in him saving thousands of jobs through the furlough scheme; disgust through his \u2018eat out help out\u2019 scheme, which probably caused more cases of the virus. But Sunak would face his most heat as Chancellor in April 2022. Like all Conservative MPs, Sunak faced tension from the \u2018partygate\u2019 scandal and Sunak would be fined in that epoch (his first of currently two fines). On top of this, news came to light that Sunak\u2019s wife, one of the richest women in Britain, was not registered to be living in the UK and was thusly not paying tax, and of top of this Rishi himself faced the same issue as he technically lived in America via his green card, and also didn\u2019t have to pay the taxes he set out. Sunak had been ousted, and tried to separate himself from Boris, being seen as a backstabber in the process. But you can’t keep our man down, as Sunak would throw his hat in the ring for the bid to be the next Prime Minister, and initially would be topping the leaderboards, before squaring up to Liz Truss, in which he lost (mind you only narrowly with a 20,000 gap between the two). But our lad Rishi need not sulk for too long, as we all know that Truss was able to only last about seven weeks, and Rishi was brought back again, infamously avoiding Matt Hancock at the Conservative Party HQ \u2013 and now everyone will be able to avoid Matt Hancock as well, as like all of Britain\u2019s past criminals, he has been sent to the Australian jungle.<\/p>\n

But going forward we can wish Rishi Sunak the best for his tenure as Prime Minister \u2013 yeah, right. Whilst Sunak has been able to recontrol the commons back to arguing on a party vs party basis, not within a party, Sunak has already faced issues over Suella Braverman\u2019s incompetence, Gavin Williamson\u2019s harassment and going to Cop27 \u2013 an event he dubbed \u2018greenface\u2019 and told the King not to go to, until he saw that Boris was going to it (and if your trying to one-up Boris, then what\u2019s the point? You can\u2019t be seen as looking bad in comparison to the man who drank too much Tesco\u2019s wine over Christmas? It\u2019s just sinking to an extra low, lower than low, lower than lower than low which is lower than Matt Hancock going on \u2018I\u2019m a Celebrity\u2019). Over December, Sunak kept a low profile, only to be fined for the second time over not wearing a seatbelt in a video posted online. Only time will tell for Sunak, and whether he will survive as Prime Minister is anyone\u2019s guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the latest of his political profiles, Monty Asker looks at the rise of the current PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":85,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.ashville.co.uk\/iaintest1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.ashville.co.uk\/iaintest1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.ashville.co.uk\/iaintest1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.ashville.co.uk\/iaintest1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.ashville.co.uk\/iaintest1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/computing.ashville.co.uk\/iaintest1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"https:\/\/computing.ashville.co.uk\/iaintest1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.ashville.co.uk\/iaintest1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.ashville.co.uk\/iaintest1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.ashville.co.uk\/iaintest1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.ashville.co.uk\/iaintest1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}