Who is Rishi Sunak, the Indian-origin leader campaigning to become UK's PM?

[HipChick]

The ‘golden boy’ of British politics also suffered personal scandals, when controversy erupted over his wife Akshata Murty’s finances. It was discovered in April that she had non-domicile status in Britain and thus, did not pay tax in the UK on her overseas income. While it was not illegal, the Labour party said it was “breathtaking hypocrisy” for the chancellor’s wife to have a reduced tax bill, while Sunak was raising taxes for millions of workers, reported the BBC.

Following the controversy, Murty announced that she would begin paying UK taxes. Reports indicated that she saved approximately £20 million in taxes on dividends from the shares she held in Infosys.

His image also suffered due to the ‘partygate scandal,’ when media reports and government investigations revealed that government officials including Johnson and Sunak had breached Britain’s strict lockdown rules and attended parties. Both of them were fined by the Metropolitan police for attending Johnson’s birthday party in June 2020.



https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/who-is-rishi-sunak-the-indian-origin-leader-campaigning-to-become-uks-prime-minister-8019385/

[Celerity]

1. It is going to be a bloodbath shitshow. Fuck ALL the Tories!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-tory-leadership-shapps-zahawi-b2119600.html

[HipChick]

3. Bloodbath it is...

here for the show...

[speak easy]

2. " .. working as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs and various hedge funds "

yeppers

[Delphinus]

4. I tell you,

after watching the story of Boris Johnson on DU yesterday
[link:https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1017&pid=748770|

and seeing the Education Secretary (or something along that title) giving the middle finger to the crowds, I cannot fathom a conservative being for the people of England.

[dalton99a]

5. +1. British Education Minister Andrea Jenkyns

Link to tweet