Just days ago the PM of the UK took it on the lame…..and now her replacement has been found…..
I admit that I know very little of this guy (so I bow to Pete’s analysis)…..
Britain’s next prime minister will be 42-year-old Rishi Sunak. The former finance minister’s path to victory improved dramatically on Sunday when Boris Johnson dropped out, then became a lock on Monday when his last challenger—fellow Conservative Penny Mordaunt—did the same, reports the Guardian. Monday was the deadline to line up the necessary support of party lawmakers, and Mourdant apparently realized she had no chance. Related:
- Fitting timing: Sunak will be the first person of color to be UK prime minister, notes the Washington Post. He is of Indian descent, and the BBC points out a fitting coincidence: The news comes on Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights.
- Told you so: Sunak lost to Liz Truss in September, and his predictions that her economic policies were a mess have proven to be spot on. “Clearly, a lot of people are now thinking, he was right and Truss was wrong and they’ve proved that in spades,” Jill Rutter of the London-based Institute for Government tells the New York Times. “The UK has paid a high price for that and will continue to pay a high price for that lost credibility.”
- Wealthy couple: Sunak has had a meteoric rise in politics, having been named chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister) by Johnson at age 39. He is married to Akshata Murthy, daughter of one of India’s richest men (Narayana Murthy, a co-founder of Infosys). The couple’s wealth has led to accusations that Sunak is out of touch with ordinary Brits hit hard by inflation, notes the Times. Controversy over their finances may be his greatest political liability, and the BBC has a separate story with details. The couple met at Stanford University.
Hopefully his tenure will be longer than the women before him.
The UK does what the US does….put rich people in power that have NO idea what the rest of us go through daily…I say that because this wanker is uber-wealthy…..
Will he make it?
I say no more than a year.
Thoughts?
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“lego ergo scribo”
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Sunak is not popular with the Conservative voters, and his ethnicity is not popular with a large section of the more racist British people. He comes from a financial background, lived and worked in America, and has a large personal wealth as well as his wife’s huge inheritance.
This from a newspaper two years ago.
The Richmond (Yorkshire) MP was first elected in 2015, taking William Hague’s former seat with a 47.2 percent majority. Mr Sunak has been dubbed the “Maharaja of the Dales” and is thought to be the wealthiest MP in the 650-strong House of Commons. Prior to beginning his political career, Mr Sunak owned his own hedge fund called Theleme Partners which had an initial fund of £557m.
Mr Sunak is married to Akshata Murthy, the daughter of Indian billionaire and consultancy firm Infosys, N. R. Narayanan Murthy, who is worth an estimated $2.5bn (£1.99bn) according to Forbes. By comparison, Mr Sunak is believed to be worth around £200m. He and his wife own an impressive property portfolio including a five-bedroom house in London and a Georgian mansion. In total, the Sunak couple is thought to own property worth more than £10m.
So, he has no idea what life is like for ordinary people. He was once famously shown filling up a car with petrol as a publicity stunt. When he went in to pay, he did not know how to use a debit card, making the media realise he had never had to use one.
The intention is that he will try to hold on to power until an election in 2025. Whether that proves to be possible is another story.
Best wishes, Pete.
Sounds like the old Hillary thing about not knowing where and how to use a gas pump…..it will be interesting to watch and thanx for your analysis. chuq