History UsefulNotes / RishiSunak

Sunak did not serve in Truss's cabinet, returning to the backbenches, only for Truss's ministry to implode completely within weeks over her disastrous economic policies, with her resigning after only 45 days on 20 October to become [[ShortLivedLeadership the shortest-serving prime minister in the history of the United Kingdom]]. In the ensuing leadership election, Sunak stood once again, and once more very quickly became the frontrunner, and this time neither of his closest rivals (Boris Johnson, attempting a very sudden political comeback, or the Leader of the House of Commons, Penny Mordaunt) attracted enough support to match him, leaving him to become leader of the Conservative Party unopposed on 24 October 2022.[[note]]In the name of expedience, the party required candidates to be nominated by at least 100 [=MPs=] to qualify in the October leadership election. Both Johnson and Mordaunt claimed to have public and private support from at least 100 [=MPs=] each before they respectively withdrew.[[/note]] In addition to being the first non-White and first British Asian prime minister, he's also, at 42 years and 166 days upon taking office, the youngest prime minister since UsefulNotes/LordLiverpool in 1812,[[note]]Liverpool was appointed as PM the day after his 42nd birthday.[[/note]] and, as a Hindu, the first practitioner of a religion other than Christianity to hold the office.[[note]]UsefulNotes/BenjaminDisraeli was born and raised Jewish but converted to the Church of England as a young man, and UsefulNotes/ClementAttlee was agnostic if not atheist.[[/note]]

Rishi Sunak (born 12 May 1980) is a British Conservative politician, the current [[UsefulNotes/TheMenOfDowningStreet Prime Minister]] of the UsefulNotes/UnitedKingdom and the [[UsefulNotes/BritishPoliticalSystem Member of Parliament]] for Richmond (Yorkshire).[[note]]This is the official name of his constituency, to avoid it being confused for the now-defunct constituency of Richmond in Surrey.[[/note]] Sunak is the UK's first non-White, and first British Asian,[[note]]While Sunak is the first Prime Minister of British Asian ethnicity, other previous holders of the office have had Asian ancestry, including UsefulNotes/LordLiverpool, whose great-grandmother Isabella Beizor was Indian, and UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson, whose great-grandfather was the Turkish diplomat Ali Kemal.[[/note]] Prime Minister. He is also the first prime minister to be appointed by King UsefulNotes/CharlesIII.

In the 2015 election, Sunak entered Parliament through the safe seat of Richmond, which has been consistently held by the Conservative Party since ''1910''.[[note]]The constituency's previous MP, who retired in 2015, was William Hague, who had led the Conservatives in opposition from 1997 to 2001 and held cabinet positions under UsefulNotes/JohnMajor and UsefulNotes/DavidCameron.[[/note]] In the 2016 referendum on continued British membership of the European Union, Sunak supported the Leave campaign, in contrast to his immediate predecessor (who campaigned quite strongly for Remain but subsequently claimed to have become a "convert" to the Brexit cause). In 2018, Prime Minister UsefulNotes/TheresaMay appointed him to his first ministerial position, as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government.

Sunak did not serve in Truss's cabinet, returning to the backbenches, only for Truss's ministry to implode completely within weeks over her disastrous economic policies, with her resigning after only 45 days on 20 October to become [[ShortLivedLeadership the shortest-serving prime minister in the history of the United Kingdom]]. In the ensuing leadership election, Sunak stood once again, and once more very quickly became the frontrunner, and this time neither of his closest rivals (Boris Johnson, attempting a very sudden political comeback, or the Leader of the House of Commons, Penny Mordaunt) attracted enough support to match him, leaving him to become leader of the Conservative Party unopposed on 24 October 2022.[[note]]In the name of expedience, the party required candidates to be nominated by at least one hundred [=MPs=] to qualify in the October leadership election. Both Johnson and Mordaunt claimed to have public and private support from at least 100 [=MPs=] each before they respectively withdrew.[[/note]] In addition to being the first non-White and first British Asian prime minister, he's also, at 42 years and 166 days upon taking office, the youngest prime minister since UsefulNotes/LordLiverpool in 1812,[[note]]Liverpool was appointed as PM the day after his 42nd birthday.[[/note]] and, as a Hindu, the first practitioner of a religion other than Christianity to hold the office.[[note]]UsefulNotes/BenjaminDisraeli was born and raised Jewish but converted to the Church of England as a young man.[[/note]]

* During his time as Chancellor of the Exchequer under UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson, he was a prominent puppet on the 2020 revival of ''Series/SpittingImage'', where he was portrayed as a wealthy and ambitious narcissist. One sketch showed Johnson's advisor Dominic Cummings attempting to read Sunak's mind via PsychicPowers, only to be faced with a vision of Sunak's disembodied heads chanting "Rishi, Rishi, Rishi".

* During his time as Chancellor of the Exchequer under UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson, he was a prominent puppet on the 2020 revival of ''Series/SpittingImage'', where he was portrayed as a wealthy and ambitious narcissist. One sketch showed Johnson's advisor Dominic Cummings attempting to read Sunak's mind via PsychicPowers, only to be faced with a vision of Sunak's disembodied heads chanting "Rishi, Rishi, Rishi".

Rishi Sunak (born 12 May 1980) is a British Conservative politician, the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Member of Parliament for Richmond (Yorkshire).[[note]]This is the official name of his constituency, to avoid it being confused for the now-defunct constituency of Richmond in Surrey.[[/note]] Sunak is the UK's first non-White, and first British Asian,[[note]]While Sunak is the first Prime Minister of British Asian ethnicity, other previous holders of the office have had Asian ancestry, including UsefulNotes/LordLiverpool, whose great-grandmother Isabella Beizor was Indian, and UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson, whose great-grandfather was the Turkish diplomat Ali Kemal.[[/note]] Prime Minister. He is also the first prime minister to be appointed by King UsefulNotes/CharlesIII.

Born in Southampton to parents of Indian descent who migrated to Britain from East Africa in the 1960s, Sunak was educated at the fee-paying private school Winchester College, before studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at [[UsefulNotes/{{Oxbridge}} Lincoln College, Oxford]], and later gaining an MBA from Stanford University in California as a Fulbright Scholar. While studying at Stanford, he met his wife Akshata Murty, the daughter of N. R. Narayana Murthy, the Indian billionaire businessman who founded multinational technology company Infosys. With a combined fortune of £730m ($827m), Sunak and Murty are the 222nd richest people in Britain, and Sunak is most likely the richest prime minister in history.

Rishi Sunak (born 12 May 1980) is a British Conservative politician, the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Member of Parliament for Richmond (Yorkshire).[[note]]This is the official name of his constituency, to avoid it being confused for the now-defunct constituency of Richmond in Surrey.[[/note]] Sunak is the UK's first non-White, and first British Asian[[note]]while Sunak is the first Prime Minister of British Asian ethnicity, other previous holders of the office have had Asian ancestry, including UsefulNotes/LordLiverpool, whose great-grandmother Isabella Beizor was Indian, and UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson, whose great-grandfather was the Turkish diplomat Ali Kemal[[/note]], Prime Minister. He is also the first Prime Minister to be appointed by UsefulNotes/CharlesIII.

Born in Southampton to parents of Indian descent who migrated to Britain from East Africa in the 1960s, Sunak was educated at the fee-paying private school Winchester College, before studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at [[UsefulNotes/{{Oxbridge}} Lincoln College, Oxford]], and later gaining an MBA from Stanford University in California as a Fulbright Scholar. While studying at Stanford, he met his wife Akshata Murty, the daughter of N. R. Narayana Murthy, the Indian billionaire businessman who founded multinational technology company Infosys. With a combined fortune of £730m ($827m), Sunak and Murty are the 222nd richest people in Britain, and Sunak is most likely the richest Prime Minister in history.

In the 2015 election, Sunak entered Parliament through the safe seat of Richmond, which has been consistently held by the Conservative Party since ''1910'' [[note]]The constituency's previous MP, who retired in 2015, was William Hague, who had led the Conservatives in opposition from 1997 to 2001 and held cabinet positions under UsefulNotes/JohnMajor and UsefulNotes/DavidCameron[[/note]]. In the 2016 referendum on continued British membership of the European Union, Sunak supported the LEAVE campaign, in contrast to his immediate predecessor (who campaigned quite strongly for REMAIN but subsequently claimed to have become a "convert" to the Brexit cause). In 2018, Prime Minister UsefulNotes/TheresaMay appointed him to his first ministerial position, as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government.

In 2019, after UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson won his leadership campaign following May's resignation as party leader, he appointed Sunak, who had supported him, to be Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Later, after Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid resigned as such in February 2020, Sunak was promoted to replace him. Between Sunak taking office and his first budget in March 2020, the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic had gotten into full swing, with Sunak's time as Chancellor being largely defined by two key initiatives intended to mitigate the impact of the pandemic. The first was the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, a furlough scheme intended to avoid mass redundancies and unemployment as a result of the pandemic's impact on business, which ran from March 2020 through to September 2021. The second was "Eat Out to Help Out", in which the UK Government subsidised food and non-alcoholic drinks at participating cafes, pubs, and restaurants at 50%, up to £10 per person (per order), throughout August 2020, in a drive intended to help the hospitality industry struggling under the weight of COVID-19 restrictions. While furlough was largely regarded positively, "Eat Out to Help Out" was more controversial, especially after [[https://academic.oup.com/ej/article/132/643/1200/6382847 researchers showed that the scheme had caused COVID-19 cases to rise]].

On 5 July 2022, Sunak resigned as Chancellor, the second major government minister to resign that day following Javid, his predecessor as Chancellor, who was now Health Secretary, as a result of Boris Johnson's handling of the Chris Pincher scandal.[[note]]Johnson had appointed Pincher to a government post despite knowing that he had been the subject of (and investigated by the police over) multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, which had come to light after Pincher was involved in another sexual misconduct incident earlier that week.[[/note]] Javid and Sunak became the first of ultimately 62 Government ministers who resigned, forcing Johnson himself to resign on 7 July. Sunak appeared to be the early favourite to replace him in the subsequent leadership election, winning every preliminary ballot of Conservative [=MPs=], but turned out to be widely disliked among the party membership, who blamed him for instigating Johnson's fall. Thus, he lost to UsefulNotes/LizTruss in the final ballot.

Sunak did not serve in Truss's cabinet, returning to the backbenches, only for Truss's ministry to implode completely within weeks over her disastrous economic policies, with her resigning after only 45 days on 20 October to become [[ShortLivedLeadership the shortest-serving prime minister in the history of the United Kingdom]]. In the ensuing leadership election, Sunak stood once again, and once more very quickly became the frontrunner, and this time neither of his closest rivals (Boris Johnson, attempting a very sudden political comeback, or the Leader of the House of Commons, Penny Mordaunt) attracted enough support to match him, leaving him to become leader of the Conservative Party unopposed on 24 October 2022.[[note]]In the name of expedience, the party required candidates to be nominated by at least one hundred [=MPs=] to qualify in the October leadership election. Both Johnson and Mordaunt claimed to have public and private support from at least 100 [=MPs=] each before they respectively withdrew.[[/note]] In addition to being the first non-White and first British Asian Prime Minister, he's also, at 42 years and 166 days upon taking office, the youngest Prime Minister since UsefulNotes/LordLiverpool in 1812.[[note]]Liverpool was appointed as PM the day after his 42nd birthday.[[/note]]

In the 2015 election, Sunak entered Parliament through the safe seat of Richmond, which has been consistently held by the Conservative Party since ''1910'' [[note]]The constituency's previous MP, who retired in 2015, was William Hague, who had led the Conservatives in opposition from 1997 to 2001 and held cabinet positions under UsefulNotes/JohnMajor and UsefulNotes/DavidCameron[[/note]]. In 2018, Prime Minister UsefulNotes/TheresaMay appointed him to his first ministerial position, as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government.

Rishi Sunak (born 12 May 1980) is a British Conservative politician, the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Member of Parliament for Richmond (Yorkshire).[[note]]This is the official name of his constituency, to avoid it being confused for the now-defunct constituency of Richmond in Surrey.[[/note]] Sunak is the UK's first non-White, and first British Asian, Prime Minister. He is also the first Prime Minister to be appointed by UsefulNotes/CharlesIII.

Born in Southampton to parents of Indian descent who migrated to Britain from East Africa in the 1960s, Sunak was educated at the fee-paying private school Winchester College, before studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at [[UsefulNotes/{{Oxbridge}} Lincoln College, Oxford]], and later gaining an MBA from Stanford University in California as a Fulbright Scholar. While studying at Stanford, he met his wife Akshata Murty, the daughter of N. R. Narayana Murthy, the Indian billionaire businessman who founded multinational technology company Infosys. With a combined fortune of £730m ($827m), Sunak and Murty are the 222nd richest people in Britain, and Sunak is most likely the richest prime minister in history.

Rishi Sunak (born 12 May 1980) is a British Conservative politician, the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Member of Parliament for Richmond (Yorkshire).[[note]]This is the official name of his constituency, to avoid it being confused for the now-defunct constituency of Richmond in Surrey.[[/note]] Sunak is the UK's first non-White, and first British Asian, Prime Minister.

Sunak did not serve in Truss's cabinet, returning to the backbenches, only for Truss's ministry to implode completely within weeks over her disastrous economic policies, with her resigning after only 45 days on 20 October to become [[ShortLivedLeadership the shortest-serving prime minister in the history of the United Kingdom]]. In the ensuing leadership election, Sunak stood once again, and once more very quickly became the frontrunner, with neither of his closest rivals (Boris Johnson, attempting a very sudden political comeback, or the Leader of the House of Commons, Penny Mordaunt) attracting enough support to match him,[[note]]In the name of expedience, the party required candidates to be nominated by at least one hundred [=MPs=] to qualify in the October leadership election. Both Johnson and Mordaunt claimed to have public and private support from at least 100 [=MPs=] each before they respectively withdrew.[[/note]] leaving him to become leader of the Conservative Party unopposed on 24 October 2022. In addition to being the first non-White and first British Asian Prime Minister, he's also, at 42 years and 166 days upon taking office, the youngest Prime Minister since UsefulNotes/LordLiverpool in 1812.[[note]]Liverpool was appointed as PM the day after his 42nd birthday.[[/note]]

Sunak did not serve in Truss's cabinet, returning to the backbenches, only for Truss's ministry to implode completely within weeks over her disastrous economic policies, with her resigning after only 45 days on 20 October to become [[ShortLivedLeadership the shortest-serving prime minister in the history of the United Kingdom]]. In the ensuing leadership election, Sunak stood once again, and once more very quickly became the frontrunner, with neither of his closest rivals (Boris Johnson, attempting a very sudden political comeback, or the Leader of the House of Commons, Penny Mordaunt) attracting enough support to match him,[[note]]In the name of expedience, the party required candidates to be nominated by at least one hundred [=MPs=] to qualify in the October leadership election. Both Johnson and Mordaunt claimed to have public and private support from at least 100 [=MPs=] each before they respectively withdrew.[[/note]] leaving him to become leader of the Conservative Party unopposed on 24 October 2022. In addition to being the first non-White and first British Asian Prime Minister, he's also, at 42 years and 166 days upon taking office, the youngest Prime Minister since UsefulNotes/LordLiverpool in 1812.[[note]]Liverpool was literally appointed as PM the day after his 42nd birthday.[[/note]]

* During his time as Chancellor of the Exchequer under UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson, he was a prominent puppet on the 2020 revival of ''Series/SpittingImage'', where he was portrayed as a wealthy and ambitious narcissist.
** One sketch showed Johnson's advisor Dominic Cummings attempting to read Sunak's mind via PsychicPowers, only to be faced with a vision of Sunak's disembodied heads chanting "Rishi, Rishi, Rishi".

Sunak did not serve in Truss's cabinet, returning to the backbenches, only for Truss's ministry to implode completely within weeks over her disastrous economic policies, with her resigning after only 45 days on 20 October to become [[ShortLivedLeadership the shortest-serving prime minister in the history of the United Kingdom]]. In the ensuing leadership election, Sunak stood once again, and once more very quickly became the frontrunner, with neither of his closest rivals (Boris Johnson, attempting a very sudden political comeback, or the Leader of the House of Commons, Penny Mordaunt) attracting enough support to match him,[[note]]In the name of expedience, the party required candidates to be nominated by at least one hundred [=MPs=] to qualify in the October leadership election. Both Johnson and Mordaunt claimed to have public and private support from at least 100 [=MPs=] each before they respectively withdrew.[[/note]] leaving him to become leader of the Conservative Party unopposed on 24 October 2022. In addition to being the first non-White and first British Asian Prime Minister, he's also, at 42 years and 165 days upon taking office, the youngest Prime Minister since UsefulNotes/LordLiverpool in 1812.[[note]]Liverpool was literally appointed as PM the day after his 42nd birthday.[[/note]]

Sunak did not serve in Truss's cabinet, returning to the backbenches, only for Truss's ministry to implode completely within weeks over her disastrous economic policies, with her resigning after only 45 days on 20 October to become [[ShortLivedLeadership the shortest-serving prime minister in the history of the United Kingdom]]. In the ensuing leadership election, Sunak stood once again, and once more very quickly became the frontrunner, with neither of his closest rivals (Boris Johnson, attempting a very sudden political comeback, or the Leader of the House of Commons, Penny Mordaunt) attracting enough support to match him,[[note]]In the name of expedience, the party required candidates to be nominated by at least one hundred [=MPs=] to qualify in the October leadership election. Both Johnson and Mordaunt claimed to have public and private support from at least 100 [=MPs=] each before they respectively withdrew.[[/note]] leaving him to become leader of the Conservative Party unopposed on 24 October 2022. In addition to being the first non-White and first British Asian Prime Minister, he's also, at 42 years and 165 days upon taking office, the youngest Prime mMnister since UsefulNotes/LordLiverpool in 1812.[[note]]Liverpool was literally appointed as PM the day after his 42nd birthday.[[/note]]

Rishi Sunak (born 12 May 1980) is a British Conservative politician, the current Prime Minister-designate of the United Kingdom and the Member of Parliament for Richmond (Yorkshire).[[note]]This is the official name of his constituency, to avoid it being confused for the now-defunct constituency of Richmond in Surrey.[[/note]] Sunak is set to become the UK's first non-White, and first British Asian, prime minister.

In the 2015 election, Sunak entered Parliament through the safe seat of Richmond, which has been consistently held by the Conservative Party since 1910. (The constituency's previous MP, William Hague, who led the Conservatives in Opposition from 1997 to 2001 and had held cabinet positions under UsefulNotes/JohnMajor and UsefulNotes/DavidCameron, had retired from the Commons.) In 2018, Prime Minister UsefulNotes/TheresaMay appointed him to his first ministerial position, as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government.

Sunak did not serve in Truss's cabinet, returning to the backbenches, only for Truss's ministry to implode completely within weeks over her disastrous economic policies, with her resigning after only 45 days on 20 October to become [[ShortLivedLeadership the shortest-serving prime minister in the history of the United Kingdom]]. In the ensuing leadership election, Sunak stood once again, and once more very quickly became the frontrunner, with neither of his closest rivals (Boris Johnson, attempting a very sudden political comeback, or the Leader of the House of Commons, Penny Mordaunt) attracting enough support to match him,[[note]]In the name of expedience, the party required candidates to be nominated by at least one hundred [=MPs=] to qualify in the October leadership election. Both Johnson and Mordaunt claimed to have public and private support from at least 100 [=MPs=] each before they respectively withdrew.[[/note]] leaving him to become leader of the Conservative Party unopposed on 24 October 2022. In addition to being the first non-White and first British Asian prime minister, he's also, at 42 years and 165 days upon taking office, the youngest prime minister since UsefulNotes/LordLiverpool in 1812.[[note]]Liverpool was literally appointed as PM the day after his 42nd birthday.[[/note]]

* During his time as Chancellor of the Exchequer under UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson, he was a prominent puppet on the 2020 revival of ''Series/SpittingImage'', where he was portrayed as an ambitious narcissist.

Rishi Sunak (born 12 May 1980) is a British Conservative politician, the current Prime Minister-Designate of the United Kingdom and the Member of Parliament for Richmond (Yorkshire)[[note]]this is the official name of his constituency, to avoid it being confused for the now-defunct constituency of Richmond in Surrey[[/note]]. Sunak is set to become the UK's first non-white, and first British Asian, Prime Minister.

Born in Southampton to parents of Indian descent who migrated to Britain from East Africa in the 1960s, Sunak was educated at the fee-paying private school Winchester College, before studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at [[UsefulNotes/{{Oxbridge}} Lincoln College, Oxford]], and later gaining an MBA from Stanford University in California as a Fulbright Scholar. While studying at Stanford, he met his wife Akshata Murty, the daughter of N. R. Narayana Murthy, the Indian billionaire businessman who founded multinational technology company Infosys. With a combined fortune of £730m ($827m), Sunak and Murty are the 222nd richest people in Britain, and Sunak is most likely the richest Prime Minister in history.

In the 2015 election, Sunak entered Parliament through the safe seat of Richmond, which has been consistently held by the Conservative Party since ''1910''. In 2018, he was appointed to his first ministerial position, as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government.

In 2019, having supported UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson in his successful leadership campaign, he was appointed Chief Secretary to the Treasury, before being promoted to Chancellor of the Exchequer in February 2020 following the resignation of his predecessor, Sajid Javid. Between Sunak taking office and his first budget in March 2020, the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic was in full swing, with Sunak's time as Chancellor being largely defined by two key initiatives intended to mitigate the impact of the pandemic. The first was the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, a furlough scheme intended to avoid mass redundancies and unemployment as a result of the pandemic's impact on business, which ran from March 2020 through to September 2021. The second was "Eat Out to Help Out", in which the UK Government subsidised food and non-alcoholic drinks at participating cafes, pubs, and restaurants at 50%, up to £10 per person (per order), throughout August 2020, in a drive intended to help the hospitality industry struggling under the weight of COVID-19 restrictions. While furlough was largely regarded positively, "Eat Out to Help Out" was more controversial, especially after [[https://academic.oup.com/ej/article/132/643/1200/6382847 researchers showed that the scheme had caused COVID-19 cases to rise]].

On 5 July 2022, Sunak resigned as Chancellor, the second major government minister to resign that day following Javid, his predecessor as Chancellor, who was now Health Secretary, as a result of Boris Johnson's handling of the Chris Pincher scandal[[note]]Johnson had appointed Pincher to a government post despite knowing that he had been the subject of (and investigated by the police over) multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, which had come to light after Pincher was involved in another sexual misconduct incident earlier that week[[/note]]. The resignations of Javid and Sunak were the first of ultimately 62 Government ministers who resigned, forcing Johnson himself to resign on 7 July. Sunak appeared to be the early favourite to replace him in the subsequent leadership election, winning every preliminary ballot of Conservative [=MPs=], but turned out to be widely disliked among the party membership, who blamed him for instigating Johnson's fall, losing to UsefulNotes/LizTruss in the final ballot.

Sunak did not serve in Truss's cabinet, returning to the backbenches, only for Truss's ministry to completely implode within weeks over her disastrous economic policies, with her resigning after only 45 days on 20 October to become [[ShortLivedLeadership the shortest-serving British Prime Minister in history]]. In the ensuing leadership election, Sunak stood once again, and once more very quickly became the frontrunner, with neither of his closest rivals (Boris Johnson, attempting a very sudden political comeback, or House of Commons leader Penny Mordaunt) attracting enough support to match him, leaving him to become leader of the Conservative Party unopposed on 24 October 2022. In addition to being the first non-white and first British Asian Prime Minister, he's also, at 42 years and 165 days upon taking office, the youngest Prime Minister since UsefulNotes/LordLiverpool in 1812.

* As Chancellor of the Exchequer under Boris Johnson, he was a prominent puppet on the 2020 revival of ''Series/SpittingImage'', where he was portrayed as an ambitious narcissist.
** One sketch showed UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson's advisor Dominic Cummings attempting to read Sunak's mind via PsychicPowers, only to be faced with a vision of Sunak's disembodied heads chanting "Rishi, Rishi, Rishi".

* As Chancellor of the Exchequer under Boris Johnson, he was a prominent puppet on the 2020 revival of ''Series/SpittingImage'', where he was portrayed as a ambitious narcissist.

* He is one of the recurring characters of the impression-based sketch show ''Series/DeadRingers''.

On 5 July 2022, Sunak resigned as Chancellor, the second major government minister to resign that day following Javid, his predecessor as Chancellor, who was now Health Secretary, as a result of Boris Johnson's handling of the Chris Pincher scandal[[note]]Johnson had appointed Pincher to a government post despite knowing that he had been the subject of (and investigated by the police over) multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, which had come to light after Pincher was involved in another sexual misconduct incident earlier that week[[/note]]. The resignations of Javid and Sunak were the first of ultimately 62 Government ministers who resigned, forcing Johnson himself to resign on 7 July. Sunak appeared to be the early favourite, winning every preliminary ballot of Conservative [=MPs=], but turned out to be widely disliked among the party membership, who blamed him for instigating Johnson's fall, losing to UsefulNotes/LizTruss in the final leadership election.

Rishi Sunak (born 12 May 1980) is a British Conservative politician, the current Prime Minister-Designate of the United Kingdom and the Member of Parliament for Richmond (Yorkshire)[[note]]this is the official name of his constituency, to avoid it being confused for the now-defunct constituency of Richmond in Surrey[[/note]]. Sunak set to become the UK's first non-white, and the first British Asian, Prime Minister.

Sunak did not serve in Truss's cabinet, returning to the backbenches, only for Truss's ministry to completely implode within weeks over her disastrous economic policies, with her resigning after only 45 days on 20 October to become [[ShortLivedLeadership the shortest-serving British Prime Minister in history]]. In the ensuing leadership election, Sunak stood once again, and once more very quickly became the frontrunner, with neither of his closest rivals (Boris Johnson, attempting a very sudden political comeback, or House of Commons leader Penny Mordaunt) attracting enough support to match him, leaving him to become leader of the Conservative Party unopposed on 24 October 2022. In addition to being the first non-white and first British Asian Prime Minister, he's also, at 42 years and 165 days upon taking office, the youngest Prime Minister since UsefulNotes/LordLiverpool in 1812.

In 2019, having supported UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson in his successful leadership campaign, he was appointed Chief Secretary to the Treasury, before being promoted to Chancellor of the Exchequer in February 2020 following the resignation of his predecessor, Sajid Javid. Between Sunak taking office and his first budget in March 2020, the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic was in full swing, with Sunak's time as Chancellor being largely defined by two key initiatives intended to mitigate the impact of the pandemic. The first was the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, a furlough scheme intended to avoid mass redundancies and unemployment as a result of the pandemic's impact on business, which ran from March 2020 through to September 2021. The second was "Eat Out to Help Out", in which the UK Government subsidised food and non-alcoholic drinks at participating cafes, pubs, and restaurants at 50%, up to £10 per person (per order), throughout August 2020, in a drive intended to help the hospitality industry struggling under the weight of COVID-19 restrictions. While furlough was largely regarded positively, "Eat Out to Help Out" was more controversial, especially after [[https://academic.oup.com/ej/article/132/643/1200/6382847 researchers showed that the scheme had ''caused'' COVID-19 cases to rise]].

Rishi Sunak (born 12 May 1980) is a British Conservative politician, the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Member of Parliament for Richmond (Yorkshire)[[note]]this is the official name of his constituency, to avoid it being confused for the now-defunct constituency of Richmond in Surrey[[/note]]. Sunak is the UK's first non-white, and the first British Asian, Prime Minister.

Sunak did not serve in Truss's cabinet, returning to the backbenches, only for Truss's ministry to completely implode within weeks over her disastrous economic policies, with her resigning after only 45 days on 20 October to become [[ShortLivedLeadership the shortest-serving British Prime Minister in history]]. In the ensuing leadership election, Sunak stood once again, and once more very quickly became the frontrunner, with neither of his closest rivals (Boris Johnson, attempting a very sudden political comeback, or House of Commons leader Penny Mordaunt) attracting enough support to match him, leaving him to become Prime Minister unopposed on 24 October 2022. In addition to being the first non-white and first British Asian Prime Minister, he's also, at 42 years and 165 days upon taking office, the youngest Prime Minister since UsefulNotes/LordLiverpool in 1812.

Sunak did not serve in Truss's cabinet, returning to the backbenches, only for Truss's ministry to completely implode within weeks over her disastrous economic policies, with her resigning after only 45 days on 20 October to become [[ShortLivedLeadership the shortest-serving British Prime Minister in history]]. In the ensuing leadership election, Sunak stood once again, and once more very quickly became the frontrunner, with neither of his closest rivals (Boris Johnson, attempting a very sudden political comeback, or House of Commons leader Penny Mordaunt) attracting enough support to match him, leaving him to become Prime Minister unopposed on 24 October 2022.

Sunak did not serve in Truss's cabinet, returning to the backbenches, only for Truss's ministry to completely implode within weeks over her disastrous economic policies, with her resigning after only 45 days on 20 October to become [[ShortLivedLeadership the shortest-serving Prime Minister in history]]. In the ensuing leadership election, Sunak stood once again, and once more very quickly became the frontrunner, with neither of his closest rivals (Boris Johnson, attempting a very sudden political comeback, or House of Commons leader Penny Mordaunt) attracting enough support to match him, leaving him to become Prime Minister unopposed on 24 October 2022.

On 5 July 2022, Sunak resigned as Chancellor, the second major government minister to resign that day following Javid, his predecessor as Chancellor, who was now Health Secretary, as a result of Boris Johnson's handling of the Chris Pincher scandal[[note]]Johnson had appointed Pincher to a government post despite knowing that he had been the subject of (and investigated by the police over) multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, which had come to light after Pincher was involved in another sexual misconduct incident earlier that week[[/note]]. The resignations of Javid and Sunak were the first of ultimately 62 Government ministers who resigned, forcing Johnson himself to resign on 7 July. Sunak appeared to be the early favourite, winning every preliminary ballot of Conservative MPs, but turned out to be widely disliked among the party membership, who blamed him for instigating Johnson's fall, losing to UsefulNotes/LizTruss in the final leadership election.

In 2019, having supported UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson in his successful leadership campaign, he was appointed Chief Secretary to the Treasury, before being promoted to Chancellor of the Exchequer in February 2020 following the resignation of his predecessor, Sajid Javid. Between Sunak taking office and his first budget in March 2020, the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic was in full swing, with Sunak's time as Chancellor being largely defined by two key initiatives intended to mitigate the impact of the pandemic. The first was the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, a furlough scheme intended to avoid mass redundancies and unemployment as a result of the pandemic's impact on business, which ran from March 2020 through to September 2021. The second was "Eat Out to Help Out", in which the UK Government subsidised food and non-alcoholic drinks at participating cafes, pubs, and restaurants at 50%, up to £10 per person (per order), throughout August 2020, in a drive intended to help the hospitality industry struggling under the weight of COVID-19 restrictions. While furlough was largely regarded positively, "Eat Out to Help Out" was more controversial, especially after researchers showed that [[https://academic.oup.com/ej/article/132/643/1200/6382847 the scheme had ''caused'' COVID-19 cases to rise]].