Sunak is the youngest Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for 200 years. He was replaced by William Pitt, who took office in 1783 at the age of 24.
Rishi Sunak is the first Prime Minister of Hindu origin in Britain. He was born in the UK to Indian parents who immigrated to the UK from East Africa in the 1960s.
He is married to Akshata Murthy, an Indian fashion designer and businesswoman in the United Kingdom and daughter of Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy.
She has an estimated net worth of $830 million, more than even Queen Elizabeth II.
Sunak was appointed Prime Minister in 2015, seven years after being elected as a Member of Parliament. Despite David Cameron becoming prime minister only nine years later, Pitt still holds the record for being the youngest by just two years.
Rishi Sunak was born on 12 May 1980 at Southampton General Hospital in Southampton, Hampshire, [3] [4] to South East African Hindu parents of Indian Punjabi origin, Yashvir and Usha Sunak [5] [6]. He attended Stroud School, a preparatory school in Romsey, and Winchester College, an independent boarding school for boys, where he was head boy. [7] [8] He was a waiter at a curry house in Southampton during his summer holidays. [9] [10] He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Lincoln College, Oxford, graduating in 2001. [8] [11] During his time at university, he did an internship at the Conservative Campaign Headquarters. [7] In 2006, he earned an MBA from Stanford University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.[11][12][13]
Sunak's paternal grandfather was from Gujranwala (modern Pakistan[14] [15] ), and his maternal grandfather was from Ludhiana (modern India [16] ); Both cities were then in the Punjab province of British India. His grandparents moved to East Africa and then to the United Kingdom in the 1960s. [17]
His father, Yashvir Sunak, was born and raised in the Kenya Colony and Protectorate (now Kenya), and is a general practitioner in the National Health Service. His mother, Usha Sunak, born in Tanganyika (which later became part of Tanzania), was a pharmacist and owned Sunak Pharmacy in Southampton between 1995 and 2014, and has a degree from Aston University. [9] [18]
Sunak is the eldest of three brothers. [19] His brother, Sanjay (born 1982), is a psychologist, and his sister, Rakhi Williams (born 1985), works in New York as head of strategy and planning at the United Nations Global Fund for Education in Emergencies. Huh.
