Britain gets ready for Rishi : Indian-origin MP favourite to be next British PM

 

New Delhi 

Is it poetic justice that as India completed 75 years of its existence since Independence, a person of Indian origin could become Britain's next Prime Minister ?

British Prime Minister Liz Truss announced her resignation on Thursday, Oct 21 
and thus became the shortest-serving PM in her country's history.

A leadership election will be completed within the next week to replace Truss and among the four probable is Rishi Sunak as well.

Born in Southampton to parents of Indian descent who migrated to Britain from East Africa in the 1960s, Sunak was educated at Winchester College and also at Lincoln College, Oxford, and later gained an MBA from Stanford University in California.

Now, there are reasons for many to think that Rishi is the best-placed Conservative MP to replace Truss.

In the previous polls, Sunak was in the race and had garnered the support of the largest number of Tory lawmakers in the early rounds.

In the run to the next round of 'elections', Rishi could also benefit from his apt analysis of the economic policies of Truss.

The 42-year-old Rishi had repeatedly warned that Truss's plans to fund the proposals through extra borrowing were reckless and could worsen decades-high inflation as well as market confidence in the UK.

Former PM Boris Johnson is also in the race. The former premier had resigned last month after a revolt among his cabinet 

Two other names doing the rounds are Jeremy Hunt and Penny Mordaunt.

Observers say the collapse of Liz Truss’s authority is the logical conclusion of the anti-EU cult that has wrecked Britain’s economy over the last six years

In 2016 the British economy was 90% the size of Germany’s. Now it is less than 70%.

Two prime ministers, two home secretaries and two finance ministers have come and gone in three years in the UK.

The British Labour Party along with some other regional parties are calling for a general election. 

That cannot be automatically called unless the ruling party is unable to form a government,  which is not the case as of now.

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