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Monday, October 24, 2022

Rishi Sunak - UK Finally Gets a Well-Qualified Prime Minister


UK Tories Are Finally ‘Ready for Rishi.’ Is It Too Late?
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-10-24/rishi-sunak-to-become-uk-prime-minister-is-it-too-late-for-the-tories
In Sunak, the country is getting a set of qualities it badly needs in a leader: competence, experience, credibility, integrity. These haven’t come as a package deal in a very long time.

Rishi Sunak to become first British PM of colour and also first Hindu at No 10
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/24/rishi-sunak-becomes-first-british-pm-of-colour-and-also-first-hindu-at-no-10
 
Rishi Sunak - Background (2020 piece):
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/economy/2020/03/crisis-chancellor-trying-save-britain-economic-cataclysm
“At Lincoln College, Oxford, he avoided student politics, preferring the investment society. Understanding how the economy works, understanding how businesses work, how to support them, how to help them grow – that intellectually I find incredibly fulfilling,” he has said. Having earned a First in politics, philosophy and economics, he spent three years as a junior analyst with the investment bank Goldman Sachs. He then obtained an MBA as a Fulbright Scholar at California’s Stanford University, joined a leading hedge fund called TCI, and left with several colleagues in 2009 to form another hedge fund firm, Theleme Partners, which was set up with an initial £700m in funding”.