Will she beat the record held by Liz Truss, who served just 44 days in her role? Rishi Sunak will become the next British prime minister, after winning the race at Downing Street on October 24, 2022. The former British finance minister will thus take command of a country in the midst of a social crisis and with a very divided majority. At 42, this former banker with a professional career typical of the British elite becomes the youngest head of government, but also the first of Indian origin, in the United Kingdom. He also becomes the richest prime minister in history: estimated at £730 million (more than €840 million) by the British press, his wealth is double that of the current royal couple, King Charles III. and the queen consort Camilla. . He will be the fifth prime minister since the 2016 Brexit referendum, which opened a long chapter of unprecedented economic and political turmoil in the UK. He is the third leader of the party in two months, a period of unprecedented instability, at the head of a majority crossed by lack of love after 12 years in power. Elected MP for Yorkshire (north of England) in 2015, Rishi Sunak agreed just five years later, at 39, to the coveted position of Minister of Finance, shortly before the start of the pandemic. This early Brexit supporter gained popularity by doling out billions of pounds in state aid during the Covid-19 pandemic. Born on May 12, 1980 in Southampton, on the south coast of England, Rishi Sunak is the eldest of three brothers and the son of a general practitioner in the public health system and a pharmacist. Born in India or of Indian origin, his grandparents emigrated from East Africa to the UK in the 1960s. Rishi Sunak, however, quickly rose to the elite by attending Winchester College, a very chic boarding school for boys. He then studied politics, philosophy, and economics at the prestigious universities of Oxford, England, and Stanford, United States. Before entering politics, he worked in finance, particularly at Goldman Sachs, and founded his own investment company.
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