html Within 149 days, the UK welcomes its third prime minister. On October 25th local time, Rich Sunak, who had just been elected leader of the British Conservative Party, accepted the official appointment of King Charles III of the British at Buckingham Palace, becoming the new British Prime Minister.
This prime minister is a bit unusual. He is a born in the 1980s, the youngest prime minister in the UK since 210 years, and the first Asian and Indian prime minister in British history.
Before him, he was 43-year-old Cameron when he was elected Prime Minister in 2010, and 44-year-old Blair when he was elected Prime Minister in 1997. The youngest prime minister in British history is William Pete, a youngest prime minister. In 1783, he was appointed Prime Minister at the age of 24.
At 9 pm Beijing time on October 24, according to the rules, former British Chancellor Rishi Sunak is the only candidate to cross the 100 threshold. He has won the support of 193 Conservative MPs and will replace Tras, who resigned in just 45 days after taking office.
How did an Indian descendant become British Prime Minister ?
980, Sunak was born in a middle-class Indian immigrant family in the port city of Southampton in southern England.
Sunak's British dream began with a brave decision by his grandmother Sraksha in 1966. Slaksha grew up in a Punjabi community in Tanzania . In 1966, Slaksha sold his wedding jewelry and bought a one-way ticket to the UK.
Leave your husband and young children, Slaksha comes to Leicester and finds a job as a bookkeeper. A year later, she saved enough cash and the rest of her family came to the UK.
Sunak's mother Usha met medical student Ashville while studying at Aston University. They got married in 1977 and moved to Southampton.
The couple has three children in total, and Sunak is the eldest son.
This middle-class family attaches great importance to education. In addition, it is good at operating pharmacies and has enough financial strength, so Sunak was able to study in a famous private school. Sunak received a British aristocratic education since childhood, and the middle school entrance was Winchester Public School, one of the most famous private schools in the UK. This is one of the nine public schools in the UK. Political and business aristocrats all over the world are willing to send their children there to study. The rich second generations such as Wang Sicong, , Huo Qigang, , and , He Youjun, , all graduated from this school. After graduating from high school, I worked as a waiter for a summer vacation in an Indian restaurant . He then went to to study at Lincoln College, Oxford, and obtained a first-class degree in philosophy, politics and economics. It is worth mentioning that Oxford University can be regarded as the cradle of the British Prime Minister. From the first Prime Minister recognized in British history, Walpole, to Sunak in 2022, there are a total of 79 prime ministers, of which 26 graduated from Oxford University.
After graduating from Oxford, Sunak joined Goldman Sachs and moved to London. After three years in London, in 2005, Sunak, 24, won the Fulbright scholarship and went to Stanford University to study for an MBA.
Like his parents, he and his wife also met in college.
At Stanford , Sunak met his later wife, Alexata Morsi, and the two got married in 2009.
Aqsata is a rich girl, and she is not ordinary rich. Her father is Narayana Morsi, who owns a software company, also known as "India's Bill Gates ". Now, this "Indian Gates" is the sixth richest man in India.
Now, what troubles Sunak the most is that he is too rich. According to the 2022 Rich List released by the British " Times " two days ago, Sunak and his wife's wealth is estimated to be US$845.5 million, while Queen Elizabeth II's wealth before her death was US$418.5 million.King Charles III and Queen Camilla 's wealth is estimated to be between $339 million and $396 million.
As an Indian citizen, Akshata chose a non-residential status in the UK, which means she only has to pay a tax of $33,932 a year without having to pay local taxes for overseas income. CNN reports estimate that this can help her pay less taxes in the UK 2.4 million US dollars a year. Sunak was the then Minister of Finance and Chief Finance Minister of the Government. After strong public opposition, Akshata finally chose to give up her non-dwelling status, saying she would pay UK taxes based on all her income worldwide, including dividends and capital gains.
Although it is often criticized for being too rich because it is too rich, the extreme recession of the British economy has made Sunak a success. Compared with Tras, who just resigned, Sunak's biggest advantage lies in his understanding of the economy.
When he was running against Tras, Sunak had blasted Tras' economic policies, warning that its "fairy tale-like" tax cuts would push the British economy to the brink of collapse. Tras has been prime minister for more than a month, which has indeed made Britain very difficult. The massive tax cut plan launched by Tras has caused the exchange rate of pound 1 to continue to fall, and the UK's sovereign debt and financial governance are regarded by investors as no different from countries with sovereign debt on the verge of bankruptcy.
Correctly "prophecy" of Trass's "financial disaster" has won Sunak a great reputation. In addition, Sunak has been the British Chancellor of the Exchequer for more than two years, and has promoted a series of measures to stabilize the British economy in response to the blow caused by the epidemic. Among them, Sunak's 12 billion pound stimulus plan and 350 billion pound rescue plan were very popular among the people.
Tras is gone, the troubles in the UK are not gone, the inflation rate is as high as 9.4%, energy prices soaring 57%, the whole economy is in a mess, it is worth waiting for whether this young prime minister can turn the tide.
Sunak was elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and the happiest thing was not the British, but the Indians.
India just celebrated the anniversary of its 75th anniversary of its escape from British colonial rule not long ago. Sunak's election as British Prime Minister this year has more special significance.
Some netizens even posted comparative photos of Commander-in-Chief of Southeast Asian Allied Forces during World War II , British Navy Marshal Louis Mountbatten and Sunak, and pointed out that Mountbatten was the last governor of British India, and now Indian-born Sunak has become the British Prime Minister.
After Sunak became the prime minister, major Indian news media reported the matter as soon as possible. In the Google news search page, the headline position in India was also dominated by this "British news".
According to the Indian Mint, Indian billionaire Anand Mahenda posted a tweet of Sunak. Mahenda said that in 1947, Churchill satirized India that India's leaders "a group of scarecrows", and today, we see Indians becoming British Prime Ministers, and life is really beautiful (Life is beautiful). It seems that Sunak's election is a belated turnaround.
On the Internet, what Indians care about most is Sunak's caste.
According to the Indian media, Sunak's family is the Khatri caste from Punjab, which belongs to the broad Khatri caste. As we all know, the five major castes in India are: Brahman , Kshatriya, Vaisya , Shoudra and Dalit .
Indian Prime Minister Modi immediately posted a message on Twitter for warm congratulations to Sunak for being elected as the new British Prime Minister, and described Sunak as a bridge between India and Britain. Modi wrote in his tweet: "As you become the British Prime Minister, I look forward to our close cooperation on global issues and jointly implementing the '2030 Roadmap'." In addition, Modi also sent Diwali blessings to Indians in the UK: "We are transforming our historical connections into modern partnerships."
Shashi Tharoor, a member of the Indian Congress Party and former UN diplomat, said on Twitter on October 24: "I think we all have to admit that the British have done something very rare in the world, and they have put a distinct minority member in the most powerful office." ”
A British Conservative Party member named Ravi Kumar said Sunak’s election was a “watershed moment”. He said: “I could not have imagined that I could see the British usher in an Indian leader before, and that I could witness this moment in my lifetime. ”
On social media, many people are saying that this is the "Obama moment" in the UK.
In fact, Sunak is not the first, nor is the only Indian politician to become a local government leader in a country outside India. Including Fiji , Irish , Guyana , Malaysia , Mauritius , Portugal, Singapore , Suriname and Sechelles also have presidents or prime ministers of Indian descent. In addition to the current Vice President of the United States Harris , Canada currently has many Indian ministers.
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English cannot be underestimated. Many people always laugh at Indian English, but Indian English, which is full of curry flavor, was considered one of the international standard English long ago. Most Indians will not be underestimated because of their own They feel shy with accent and extremely confident, often talk endlessly and show themselves very bravely, which gives Westerners a good impression.
Compared with Chinese, Indians are more united and know how to support their own people. Americans say that when an Indian is responsible for a project, more Indians will follow in next. Therefore, Silicon Valley technology companies are full of Indians. The three giants ( Apple , Google and html In l1 Microsoft ), Indians won two CEOs, and the top 500 companies are even more intensive. According to a research study at Stanford University, about 15% of startups in the US technology industry are formed by Indians, which is more than the combined number of companies created by British, Chinese and Japanese. In Silicon Valley high-tech companies, more than one-third of software engineers are Indians or Indians.
According to statistics, in 2016, the middle-line income of Indian families in the United States was US$102,000 (the average middle-line income of American families was US$53,000 that year), which was 30,000 more than Chinese, and surpassed the Jewish families and became the highest-income ethnic group in the United States.
Indians can always integrate into the local area, which is closely related to the option of "returning to China". Indians have never thought about returning to China to serve their motherland. They or him The ancestors tried every means to escape from India in order to prevent their descendants from returning to India.
This is also India's biggest trouble - their top intellectual resources are not used to build their own country, but have all flowed out of nothing to develop Western countries to build Europe and the United States.
For China, Sunak becoming the British Prime Minister is not a good thing.
Sunak once said that "China is a long-term number one threat to the UK and the world economy and national security" and threatened that "the first day of becoming prime minister" would change the attitude of British and Western politicians towards China.
He pointed his finger at Confucian Academy , claiming to use spy agencies to help British companies fight against China's "espionage". He will also study cases of banning Chinese companies from acquiring key British assets, including strategically sensitive technology companies.In the statement, Sunak accused Beijing of indirectly supporting Putin’s military operations in Ukraine by continuing to import large quantities of Russian oil, threatening Taiwan with force and oppressing its Asia-Pacific neighbors. Sunak also expressed unreasonable slander for China's global layout of the "Belt and Road" plan, claiming that this has left developing country carrying insurmountable debts. He said that China is manipulating the price of the RMB to profit from a globalized economy, and even so, the British Treasury is still trying to reach an economic and trade cooperation agreement with China, which is unacceptable when China continues to violate the principles of British values.
In the declaration of siege against China, Sunak declared to the audience, "Enough. For a long time, politicians in Britain and the entire West have laid the red carpet to China, turning a blind eye to evil activities and ambitions. I will change this on the first day of becoming prime minister!"
