Rishi sunak posterboy of ‘diversity built britain’
In what has been a meteoric rise, Rishi Sunak, who became an MP for the first time as recently as in 2015, is now a top contender to be the next UK PM. Earlier this year, when he became the first Chancellor in British history to have been sanctioned for breaking the law while in office and his wife Akshata Murty became embroiled in a tax controversy, it appeared that this rise had been like Icarus’s. But as 358 Tory lawmakers and then 180,000 members vote for the next leader of their party and country, Sunak is very much back in the game.And he has not been the only person of color or even of South Asian descent in the prime ministerial race. This does not mean that British politics has transformed into a post-race utopia. A YouGov poll suggests that Sunak is not the favorite among grass-roots Conservatives, or even the second most favorite. Even so and irrespective of how he finally fares in the PM race, for a significant chunk of the pandemic years he has been Britain’s most popular politician. Some experts even posit that his non-whiteness has given him an exotic legup, much more than being any kind of disadvantage.
The pride of Brits who are savoring that half the candidates with which the current prime ministerial race began were minorities, is justified. This is not the result of migration and demographic shifts alone. Accommodating diversity has widened the talent pool. Conservatives have made a push for recruiting and promoting minority candidates since David Cameron, and it’s paid off for them. As also for Britain.
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