[7] Yashvir was a general practitioner (GP), and Usha was a pharmacist who ran a local pharmacy. [4] His brother Sanjay is a psychologist and his sister Raakhi works as the COVID-19 United Nations engagement and strategy lead at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Rishi Sunak (born 12 May 1980) is a British politician who has served as Chancellor of the Exchequer since February 2020. [13] [19], Sunak was selected as the Conservative candidate for Richmond (Yorks) in October 2014. [14] He left in November 2009 [15] to join former colleagues at new hedge fund firm Theleme Partners, which launched in October 2010 with an initial $700 million. Sunak was born on 12 May 1980 in Southampton, Hampshire, to Yashvir and Usha Sunak. The first ballot of Members of Parliament (MPs) took place on 13 June, with exhaustive ballots of MPs also taking place on 18, 19 and 20 June, reducing the candidates to two. [9] The seat is one of the safest Conservative seats in the United Kingdom and has been held by the party for over 100 years. May had resigned as Leader of the Conservative Party on 7 June 2019; Johnson was elected as her successor on 23 July 2019. [23], He supported the UK leaving the European Union (EU) in the June 2016 membership referendum. Rishi Sunak is a popular politician from the British Government.

I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like. [4] His brother Sanjay is a psychologist and his sister Raakhi works as the COVID-19 United Nations engagement and strategy lead at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. An election was called for 12 December 2019, which led to the formation of a Conservative majority government, the second Johnson ministry. Upon resigning, Javid told the Press Association that "no self-respecting minister would accept those terms". [25][26][27], Sunak was re-elected as MP in the 2017 general election, with an increased majority of 23,108 (40.5%). Rishi Sunak is the new fund pastor of the United Kingdom government. After Johnson was elected and appointed Prime Minister, he appointed Sunak Chief Secretary to the Treasury, deputising for Chancellor Javid at HM Treasury. [42][43] Political commentators saw Sunak's appointment as signalling the end of the Treasury's independence from Downing Street, with Robert Shrimsley, chief political commentator of the Financial Times, arguing that "good government often depends on senior ministers – and the Chancellor in particular – being able to fight bad ideas". [1] [11] [12], Sunak worked as an analyst for investment bank Goldman Sachs between 2001 and 2004. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, or simply the Chancellor, is a high ranking Minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom, and head of Her Majesty's Treasury. Sharma has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Reading West since 2010. Following the December 2019 general election, there was considerable speculation that Johnson was planning a major reshuffle of the Cabinet, to take place after the United Kingdom's official withdrawal from the European Union on 31 January 2020. [20] In the same year Sunak was head of the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Research Unit of centre-right think tank Policy Exchange, for which he co-wrote a report on BME communities in the UK. His grandparents were born in Punjab, India, and emigrated from East Africa with their children to th It followed the resignation of Theresa May, who stood down as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party following Parliament's repeated rejection of her Brexit withdrawal agreement. After Johnson was elected and appointed Prime Minister, he appointed Sunak Chief Secretary to the Treasury, deputising for Chancellor Javid at HM Treasury. Rishi Sunak (born 12 May 1980) is a British politician who has served as Chancellor of the Exchequer since February 2020. [33][34], Sunak was appointed as Chief Secretary to the Treasury by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on 24 July 2019 and served under Chancellor Sajid Javid until February 2020. [16][17][18] Sunak was also a director of investment firm Catamaran Ventures, owned by his father-in-law, Indian businessman N. R. Narayana Murthy. A member of the Conservative Party, he previously served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury under Chancellor Sajid Javid from July 2019 to February 2020.

Holden is the first Conservative MP in the constituency's history. [36], In the weeks leading up to Sunak's appointment as Chancellor, a number of briefings in the press had suggested that a new economic ministry led by Sunak might be established, to reduce the power and political influence of Chancellor Sajid Javid at the Treasury.

Boris Johnson carried out the first significant reshuffle of his majority government on 13 February 2020. [46] Shortly after, Sunak announced £330 billion in emergency support for businesses,[47] as well as a salary subsidy scheme for employees. [32] During the election campaign, Sunak represented the Conservatives in both the BBC's and ITV's seven-way election debates. A member of the Conservative Party, he previously served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury under Chancellor Sajid Javid from July 2019 to February 2020.