UK: Rishi Sunak to meet King Charles and give the first address to the nation as PM
New Delhi: Rishi Sunak has pledged to build a cabinet of all the talents but, given the swiftness of the leadership competition, relatively little has been briefed about his potential cabinet.
His team says no roles have been promised to any backers and Sunak was in the enviable position as the frontrunner of not needing to promise roles to anyone.
But he will have been buoyed up by the backing of MPs from the right and left of the party, which will help him build a “unity cabinet”.
Who is Rishi Sunak?
Rishi Sunak will be the UK’s first ever person of colour to lead the country and the first Hindu prime minister. The man who will on Tuesday become the UK’s 57th prime minister is richer than the King and, at 42, younger than every predecessor except William Pitt the Younger.
Sunak was born in Southampton in 1980 to Indian parents who had moved to the UK from east Africa. His father was a GP and his mother ran her own pharmacy. The eldest of three children, Sunak was educated at a private boarding school, Winchester College, which costs £43,335 a year to attend. He was head boy and has in recent years made multiple donations of over £100,000 to the school.
