wooSick Rishi Sunki Be the next prime minister of Britain? More to the point, will the white-majority Conservative Party allow him to become prime minister? Or with former Prime Minister Boris Johnson out of the race, admitting that the timing is not right, will the Conservative Party establishment find another loser who doesn’t have white skin, an anti-fad challenge. to face? Penny Mordent, anyone?
Diwali today may have been the most important Monday in the life of Sanak, a Hindu Punjabi who was born in Britain in the 1960s after his parents emigrated from East Africa; His grandparents moved from undivided Punjab to Kenya in 1935, where his grandfather worked as a clerk, while his maternal grandfather moved to Tanganyika (known as Tanzania) – which also means that these African Nations have a similar claim to the pride that the Indian would take if he actually made it to 10, Downing Street.
Guido Fox Political Website noted on Saturday that Sunak had become the first person to break the 100 MPs limit, meaning he could run for the Conservative Party’s leadership – and run for the job of prime minister. That’s exactly what he did on Sunday, throwing his hat in the ring.
By Monday, the pound, which was done dragging Like one of the three witches in Macbeth, during Truss’s presidency.
and also Johnson, who cut short his Caribbean vacation and returned to London to check out the Prime Minister’s sweepstakes over the weekend, knows Its time is over.
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craze is suitable for the top job
Surely Sunak has the potential to become the later Manmohan Singh. As finance ministers, they both pulled their nations out of a deep crisis – Sunak successfully fought the Covid crisis, which struck Britain with a few simple plans, while Manmohan Singh led India in the early 1990s. India was forced out of balance of payments disturbances. To pledge your gold with the Bank of England.
The sunk is seen as the safest pair of hands in Britain today. Even in the race against Liz Truss, where she got just 42 percent of the vote, she repeatedly told her not to try to balance the budget by cutting taxes from the rich at a time when the world Was getting away from covid. , without knowing where the finances will come from.
Indeed as Chancellor of the Exchequer during Covid, Sunak went against traditional Conservative Party logic heavy borrowing from the state£330 billion for an emergency mass job retention scheme, which allowed employees to claim 80 percent of their wages when they were no longer able to work during the pandemic;
Another scheme aimed at boosting consumer demand, called “Eat Out to Help Out”, subsidized food and drink at participating restaurants. It was a win-win project that kept the business running while at the same time ensuring that no one really went hungry.
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What’s stopping Sunak’s rise
Sunak and Johnson are believed to have had a one-on-one conversation on the eve of Diwali. Clearly, Johnson has seen the light. This is a difficult time for Britain, not business as the old people used to like it. But the Indian-origin fad is clearly not taking any risks. As the Hindi proverb goes, Sunak is “flying at every step” (step on the phone), probably wanting to make sure that he is what both MPs and party membership really want this time.
Last time too, it seemed that he had the support of party MPs. Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Rabo He had said, “I know Rishi has got what we need to provide the leadership we need to steer the country through tough economic times.”
Jeremy Hunt, who became Liz Truss’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, then said of the sunak, “The sage is one of the most civilized straight men with the highest standards I have met in British politics. And so I see him as my next prime minister. Will be proud to have you as.”
But there were others who accused Sunak of being a “betrayer” of Boris Johnson and of toppling the Conservative Party government. His resignation as chancellor in July is believed to have come to an end after the then health secretary Sajid Javid – of Pakistani origin, who is again voting for Sunak as PM today – finally came to an end. Sunak and Javid are said to have resigned because Johnson ignored sexual abuse allegations against one of his MPs and still led them to an impressive job. Johnson denies the allegations.
related to Allegations of tax evasion against Sunak’s wife Akshata The daughter of Infosys founder Narayana Murthy – she finally paid the tax to put an end to the gossip that had started affecting Sunak’s politics. But the fact remains that Akshata is not a British citizen; As an Indian, and therefore as a non-domicile, he had no need to pay tax on his inheritance which is made in India. Akshata Murthy’s money is not Rishi Sunak’s money. British law accepts this.
So why kill the sage Sunak for the wealth of his wife? Britain’s double standards have been visible for some time now.
UK will have a new PM in a few days from now. The question is, will he not eat non-vegetarian food? do not drink alcohol, who believes in Hinduism – which the whole of India is supporting – is enough for England? Or will Rishi Sunak’s skin tone undermine his apparent top-notch credentials for Britain’s top job?
The author is a consulting editor. She tweets @jomalhotra. Thoughts are personal.
(edited by Prashant)