: Rishi Sunak in historic comeback bid to be elected UKs first British Indian PM  #IndiaNEWS #News London: It is being widely pitched as one of the most remarkable political comebacks in British politics

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Rishi Sunak in historic comeback bid to be elected UKs first British Indian PM  #IndiaNEWS #News
London: It is being widely pitched as one of the most remarkable political comebacks in British politics as Indian-origin former chancellor Rishi Sunak formally entered the race to be elected Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister on Sunday.
This time around he is back with arguably even greater gravitas, given that most of his warnings dismissed by outgoing Prime Minister Liz Truss as a “doom and gloom� have since come true and plunged the UK economy into a downward spiral as a result of unfunded tax cuts unleashed by a now infamous mini-budget.
While Sunak has maintained a dignified silence over the recent crisis, his supporters have not lost any opportunity to point out how the former finance minister had got the economic forecasts right.
Sunak, 42, a former investment banker and Oxford and Stanford University graduate, was elected member of Parliament from the Tory stronghold of Richmond in Yorkshire in 2015. He quickly rose up the party ranks from junior ministerial posts to Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Last month, his meteoric rise within the Tory ranks hit new heights as he concluded his spirited run to be elected Britains first Prime Minister of Indian heritage.
In the end, the result was closer than was forecast with Rishi Sunak – a clear frontrunner among the party MPs – losing out in the wider membership poll 43 per cent to Truss 57 per cent.
“We know the UK-India relationship is important. We represent the living bridge between our two countries,� declared Sunak, during the course of the nearly eight-week-long election process — dubbed one of the longest job interviews in British politics.
His vision for India-UK bilateral ties went beyond the opportunity for the UK to sell things in India, wanting Britain to also “learn from India�.
“I want to make sure that its easy for our students to also travel to India and learn, that its also easy for our companies and Indian companies to work together because its not just a one-way relationship, its a two-way relationship, and thats the type of change I want to bring to that relationship,� he said.
His close allies and the #Ready4Rishi campaign team never ruled out another go at the party leadership, while the father of two school-going daughters – Krishna and Anoushka – took some time out for family.
“The greatest sacrifice I have made is that I have been an appalling husband and father for the past couple of years, its as simple as that,� replied Sunak, to a question about running to become the UKs “first non-white Prime Minister�.
“That is something that is really hard for me because I love my kids to bits, I love my wife to bits and unfortunately, I have not been able to be as present in their lives at all in the past few years as I would have liked to have been, he said at the final hustings in Wembley, London, last month.

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