In London
If Rishi Sunak's budgetary equations are like his appearance, British economic policy should be wise and polite. Nothing exceeds the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, as strictly dressed as impeccably dressed. Always smiling too, he displays an elegant relaxation. His appointment as head of the world's fifth-largest economy was the big surprise of the post-Brexit reshuffle, after his boss Sajid Javid threw in the towel. A dazzling promotion for this 39-year-old man, who is the rising star of the Conservative party.
His “British Indian” journey is brilliant. Of Indian origin, his family has its roots in Punjab but his parents arrived in the United Kingdom from East Africa. Rishi was born in 1980 in Southampton, in Hampshire (south-west of England), into a middle-class family, with a father general practitioner and a mother pharmacist. His studies are close to the trajectory
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