Rishi Sunak: The wealthy millennial who rocketed to power

At conscionable 42, Rishi Sunak is the youngest premier curate successful modern times - taking the grounds held by his aged brag David Cameron, who was 43 erstwhile appointed.

His emergence to the apical has been fast. He lone became MP for Richmond successful North Yorkshire successful 2015 and joined the Cabinet successful 2019.

"I showed up and radical were surprised," Mr Sunak said astir being selected to correspond Richmond, with its overwhelming achromatic population. But his "Yorkshire values" of hard enactment resonated with radical and helium won them implicit by showing an involvement successful what mattered to them, helium said.

Mr Sunak joined Boris Johnson's Cabinet successful 2019 arsenic main treasury to the caput moving with chancellor Sajid Javid, and his vocation rocketed from there.

A self-confessed "huge Star Wars fan" with a sizeable postulation of lightsabers, helium erstwhile tweeted a photograph of himself and his "Jedi Master" Mr Javid astatine a screening of The Rise of Skywalker successful 2019. A fewer months later, the apprentice became the maestro erstwhile helium replaced Javid arsenic Chancellor, and was plunged into pandemic situation readying and budgeting.

But successful July, helium resigned from the Cabinet, saying helium felt his ain attack to the system was "fundamentally excessively different" to that of the PM. Just 16 weeks later, helium has present go person himself.

His assignment arsenic PM came connected the time millions celebrated Diwali, and arsenic a practising Hindu helium has said 1 of his proudest vocation moments was lighting ceremonial diyas (oil lamps) extracurricular 11 Downing Street portion Chancellor.

For rather a fewer people, this teetotal millennial - helium had his 40th day during the archetypal lockdown - appeared to beryllium a reassuringly dependable manus astatine the tiller arsenic Chancellor.

Place of birth: Southampton

Home: London and Yorkshire

Education: Winchester College, Oxford University, Stanford University

Family: Married to businesswoman Akshata Murty with 2 daughters

Parliamentary constituency: Richmond (Yorkshire)

When helium pledged to bash "whatever it takes" to assistance radical done the pandemic successful the outpouring of 2020 - and unveiled enactment worthy £350bn - his idiosyncratic canvass ratings went done the roof.

But the UK continued to beryllium buffeted by stormy economical weather, and Mr Sunak himself had to woody with the fallout of being fined by constabulary for breaking lockdown rules successful Downing Street successful June 2020.

In April, immoderate Conservative critics questioned whether the multimillionaire - thought to beryllium the richest MP successful parliament - had grasped the standard of the cost-of-living compression facing struggling households.

In that month, the finances of Mr Sunak and his household came nether aggravated scrutiny, with the taxation affairs of his woman Akshata Murty - the girl of Narayana Murthy, Indian billionaire and co-founder of IT services elephantine Infosys - placed successful the spotlight.

She aboriginal announced she would commencement paying UK taxation connected her overseas net to relieve governmental unit connected her husband.

But the ungraded does not look to person dented his popularity wrong Parliament. Newsnight's governmental exertion Nick Watt says his colleagues find him "very personable", but besides idiosyncratic who is "very wide and definite successful what helium thinks".

For example, successful the run-up to the 2016 Brexit referendum - successful which helium campaigned to Leave - helium was called into Downing Street and asked for his enactment to stay successful the EU but helium refused.

"He said 'No, I deliberation Brexit is the close happening to do' - which is rather a happening for a newly-elected MP to accidental to Downing Street."

Mr Sunak told the Yorkshire Post helium believed leaving the EU would marque the UK "freer, fairer and much prosperous".

He said changing migration rules was different cardinal crushed for his Leave vote: "I judge that due migration tin payment our country. But we indispensable person power of our borders."

To go PM wrong 7 years of entering authorities is highly unusual. From 2001 to 2004, Mr Sunak was an expert for Goldman Sachs and was aboriginal a spouse successful 2 hedge funds.

His supporters anticipation his oculus for statistic and information volition enactment the system successful harmless hands.

Mr Sunak's parents came to the UK from eastbound Africa and are some of Indian origin.

He was calved successful Southampton successful 1980, wherever his begetter was a GP, and his parent ran her ain pharmacy.

"In presumption of taste upbringing, I'd beryllium astatine the temple astatine the play - I'm a Hindu - but I'd besides beryllium astatine [Southampton Football Club] the Saints crippled arsenic good connected a Saturday - you bash everything, you bash both."

In the interrogation helium said helium had been fortunate not to person endured a batch of racism increasing up, but that determination was 1 incidental that had stayed with him.

"I was conscionable retired with my younger member and younger sister, and I think, astir apt beauteous young, I was astir apt a mid-teenager, and we were retired astatine a accelerated nutrient edifice and I was conscionable looking aft them. There were radical sitting nearby, it was the archetypal clip I'd experienced it, conscionable saying immoderate precise unpleasant things. The 'P' word."

"And it stung. I inactive retrieve it. It seared successful my memory. You tin beryllium insulted successful galore antithetic ways."

However, helium said helium "can't conceive of that happening today" successful the UK.

He attended the exclusive backstage schoolhouse Winchester College - moving arsenic a waiter astatine a Southampton curry location during his summertime holidays - past went to Oxford to survey philosophy, authorities and economics.

While studying for an MBA astatine Stanford University helium met his wife. The mates person 2 daughters.

During the erstwhile enactment campaign, helium often mentioned his daughters successful the discourse of clime change. Answering a question connected clime alteration during a BBC TV debate, Mr Sunak said helium took "advice from my 2 young daughters, who are the experts of this successful my household".