Even as India celebrates its own entry into 10, Downing Street, Rishi Sunak faces the daunting challenge of pulling the UK economy back from the brink of crisis.
Rishi Sunak speaks at an event on August 23 as part of his campaign to become leader of the Conservative Party; (Photo: Getty Images)
IIn 1869, telegraph pioneer John Pender founded the British Indian Submarine Telegraph Company to lay an undersea cable from Britain to India. When the English writer John Ruskin was informed of this venture, he half-jokingly asked: “I wonder what the message will be.” A century and a half later, a man of Indian origin, well-tailored and alert, has become a powerful message for himself, for a country that has become a laughing stock as it grapples with economic crisis and political instability. Is. Former hedge-fund manager Rishi Sunak has become Britain’s youngest prime minister in 200 years, and the first person of color and the first Hindu to hold that office.