Sunak, 42, was elected Prime Minister of Britain, making many history: Britain's first prime minister of color and Indian, and the youngest prime minister in more than 200 years.

html lost to Elizabeth Trass in September, Rich Sunak, who is now standing in front of , 10 Downing Street, .

On the 24th local time, the results of the election for the head of the ruling Conservative Party of the UK were released. Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Sunak , as the only candidate, is automatically elected as the new leader of the British Conservative Party. He will replace Tras, who resigned in just 45 days after taking office, and become the British Prime Minister .

In fact, when former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his withdrawal from the election earlier, this result was almost a foregone conclusion.

Sunak, 42, was elected Prime Minister of Britain, creating many history: the first Prime Minister of Color and Indian, and the youngest Prime Minister in more than 200 years.

Indian, second generation immigrants, middle class, famous school origins, business elites, one of the richest parliamentarians, Indian "billionaire" father-in-law... These words were collected on him for a time.

immigrant families grew up and were born in an elite education

Sunak in 1980 in an Indian family in the southern British city of Southampton . His grandparents were both born in Punjab in British India, and both lived in East Africa . In the 1930s, my grandfather worked as a clerk in Nairobi (now Kenya capital), and my grandfather worked as a tax official in Tanganyika (now Tanzania ). In the 1960s, two families immigrated from East Africa to the UK.

In the UK, Sunak's father became an general practitioner , and his mother was a pharmacist who ran a small pharmacy.

Like many middle-class immigrant families, Sunak's parents attach great importance to their children's education. They save money to send Sunak, who has excellent grades, to Winchester College, a private middle school with high tuition fees.

Then, Sunak was admitted to Oxford University , studying PPE (Philosophy, Political Science and Economics), known as the " Prime Minister Cradle", and graduated with first-class scores in 2001. During college, Sunak interned at the Conservative Party campaign headquarters. (It is worth mentioning that Sunak and his former competitor Trass are alumni of Oxford PPE.)

business elites, devoted themselves to politics

After graduation, Sunak did not enter the political arena, but devoted himself to the business world. He joined Goldman Sachs Group as an analyst, and three years later hedge fund management company TCI, and became a partner in September 2006. That year, he also received an MBA from Stanford University .

While studying at Stanford, he met his future wife, Akshata Murty, and the two got married in 2009. This is a turning point in Sunak's life that cannot be ignored, because Akshata's father is the "father of the IT industry" and billionaire Narayana Murthy.

Sunak and his wife Akshata Murtie

After returning to the UK from Stanford University, Sunak joined the hedge fund company Theleme Partners. Then, he joined his father-in-law's investment company, Catamaran Ventures, as a director. With his origins from a prestigious school, outstanding abilities, and the support of his father-in-law, Sunak has been smooth sailing on the path of business elites.

Sunak's father-in-law Narayana Murthi, founder of Infosys, India's second largest IT company,

Sunak began to enter politics in 2014.

That year, former Conservative Party leader and Foreign Secretary William Hague decided not to participate in the 2015 general election, and his long-time MP seat was about to be vacant. This seat is one of the safest Conservative seats in the UK and has been occupied by the Conservative Party for more than 100 years.

Sunak joined the Conservative Party and made his mark, and won the appreciation of Hegel, successfully becoming a Conservative candidate. That same year, he also served as head of the Black and Minority (BME) research division of the center-right think tank Policy Exchange.

In 2015, the 34-year-old political star crushed candidates from six other parties with more than half of the votes, successfully elected as a member of parliament and became a junior minister of the government of former Prime Minister Theresa May.

Former British Prime Minister Theresa May

Firm supporter of "Brexit"

In the UK's "Brexit" referendum in June 2016, Sunak firmly supported "Brexit". He also voted three times for then-Prince Theresa May’s Brexit deal and voted against a second Brexit referendum.

He told the Yorkshire Post at the time that he believed that Brexit would make Britain "freer, more fairer and more prosperous". He also said that changing immigration rules is another key reason why he supports Brexit. "I believe that proper immigration can benefit our country. But we must control our borders."

That year, he also wrote a report for the Thatcherpai think tank "Center for Policy Research", supporting the establishment of a free port after Brexit, and the following year he advocated the establishment of a retail bond market for small and medium-sized enterprises.

In 2019, the "Brexit" plan was in full swing for three years but failed. Theresa May announced his resignation, and Sunak turned to support Boris Johnson, who vowed to "get Brexit". After the latter was elected, Sunak was valued and appointed as Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Finance; in February 2020, he was promoted to Minister of Finance.

The most popular Minister of Finance

Sunak, who served as the Prime Minister of Finance, faces multiple attacks from the aftershock of Brexit, the new crown epidemic, and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

When the outbreak of the epidemic, he promoted the "Coronavirus Job Retention Plan" and the "Individual Worker Income Support Plan" to reduce the impact of the epidemic on the employment market and mobilized huge amounts of finances. He launched a plan to encourage the British public to "dine out" to help the catering industry (later accused of being linked to the surge in COVID-19 infection rate).

It is worthy of recognition that a survey conducted by British polling agency Ipsos Mori in September 2020 showed that the big Sunak is the most popular Chancellor of the Exchequer since 1978, with a satisfaction rate of 64%. Even many Labour voters also recognized his performance.

but has a close relationship with Johnson which also brings trouble to him. He was involved in the "party gate" scandal: Investigations show that Sunak also violated the epidemic lockdown rules in 2020 and attended Johnson's birthday party.

On July 5 this year, Sunak resigned as Chancellor of the Chancellor of the Certificate in protest against Johnson's leadership, which triggered a "resignation wave" of nearly 60 people, which eventually led to Johnson's resignation. Sunak's move was considered by some as a "shocking" to Johnson.

Sunak and Johnson

The new prime minister with multiple identities

In 2019, Sunak emphasized in an interview with BBC that "identity" is very important to him.

"My parents immigrated here, our generation was born here, but our parents were not born here, they came to this country to build a life."

In an interview, he said that he was lucky that he had not experienced a lot of racial discrimination while growing up, but there was an incident that he still remembered: he was called "P" (an insulting word for South Asians) by others in a fast food restaurant. But he said, "It is impossible to imagine that this kind of thing will happen in the UK now."

Sunak is also a devout Hindu . "In terms of cultural education, as a Hindus, I will go to temples on weekends, but I will also go to the 'saints' game on Saturdays ( Southampton Football Club )."

In 2020, after the Floyd case in the United States launched a "Black Lives Matter" campaign that swept through many countries, Sunak publicly talked about the racism he faced in public life and the difficulties his family overcame when immigrating to the UK. He also publicly supported his Hindu belief and was sworn in as the Minister of Finance by pressing the Hindu classic "Bhagavad Gita".

Sunak is a Hindus

Compared with minorities and religious beliefs, Sunak's "elite" and "rich" attributes seem to be more attention from the media.

According to Forbes' estimates, the Sunaks ranks 222nd among the 1,000 richest people in the UK in 2022, and the two are expected to have a total wealth of 730 million pounds (about 6 billion yuan).

In April this year, Sunak and his family's financial situation was under strict scrutiny. His wife Akshata was exposed to have lived in the UK for many years but was not naturalized. She was questioned because of her "non-British tax resident" status and did not have to pay taxes on her huge overseas income. Later, Akshata announced that she would start paying taxes on her overseas income in the UK to ease political pressure on her husband.

Another noteworthy event is that in the 2001 BBC documentary "The Middle Class: Their Rise and Spread", 21-year-old Sunak said in an interview: "I have aristocratic friends, I have upper-class friends, and working-class friends. Well... well, I don't have a working class (friend)."

Sunak's remarks more than 20 years ago were dug out by the media in the election campaign in July this year, causing a public opinion storm. Sunak's strong wealth and private school background are the focus.

In this documentary, Sunak talks about his experience at Winchester Public School and Oxford University. He said he was very lucky to have education in these places because it “makes me the elite of society.” Sunak said he considered himself a professional middle class and did not consider Asian identity a decisive feature.

In 2001, 21-year-old Sunak appeared in the BBC documentary for an interview

Of course, the people's most concerned now is how the new prime minister leads Britain out of the turbulent economic crisis.

In the eyes of Sunak's supporters, he is the stable hand of the economy.

In the Conservative Party leader's campaign in July this year, Sunak played against Trass. Tras promised to boost the economy through tax cuts, while Sunak satirized Tras' idea as a reckless "fairy tale" and said that the surge in inflation must be controlled first. Now it seems Sunak correctly predicts the market crisis that Trass's tax cut commitment will trigger. Eventually, Tras was indeed forced to resign due to setbacks in economic reforms, and Sunak's foresight assessment seemed to strengthen people's confidence in him.

Sunak and Trass

"Wall Street Journal " recently reported that Sunak, who was a hedge fund manager, tried to narrow the UK's budget gap by raising taxes during his tenure as Finance Minister, and he had a considerable support base in parliament.

How should this former Chancellor of the Exchequer, who was an elite businessman, deal with the "negative assets" left by Tras and how should he unite the Conservative Party again? More importantly, Sunak, who is about to take over Downing Street , not only needs to deal with economic issues, but also face many challenges both inside and outside the UK.