The rise and rise of Dishy Rishi


Skyrocketing popularity: Sunak is a traditional British political prodigy almost having an aura similar to what Tony Blair had in the early 1990s and David Cameron a few years later.— AFP

IS a British Emmanuel Macron in the making within the setup of Westminster?

Forty-year-old Rishi Sunak is confident, empathetic, insightful, fresh and assured, and like Macron, he was a young investment banker with no political experience prior to his appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Incidentally, Sunak is the most popular Conservative politician in the United Kingdom at the moment, much ahead of Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

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