Rishi Sunak, The New UK Prime Minister and some of the other Premiers of non-English Descent in the History of the United Kingdom
Rishi Sunak, born in Southampton, England to parents of Punjabi Indian descent who had migrated to Britain from East Africa in the 1960s, was announced today as the new Leader of Britain’s Conservative Party. He would become the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on October 24, 2022. His rise to the top political post in the United Kingdom was following a chaotic Conservative Party leadership race, where he prevailed after the withdrawal of former prime minister Boris Johnson. Thus, he replaces Elizabeth Truss, the outgoing prime minister with the shortest reign in British history(44 days), making him the third minister in two months of political distress and economic turmoil in the country which faces the risk of global war as fears grow of an escalation in the wars in Ukraine involving direct NATO involvement on the side of Ukraine against Russia and Russian allied forces. Rishi Sunak thus becomes the first UK Prime Minister of Asian/Indian/Hindu/Punjabi descent, as well as of