A British Indian Prime Minister

A) Read the article from the London Evening Standard

Tuesday 25 October 2022

King Charles III crowned Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister on a historic day for Britain. 

His Majesty appointed Mr Sunak as premier, the first British Asian to reach the top job in UK politics and the youngest Prime Minister since the Napoleonic Wars more than 200 years ago. Mr Sunak's political coronation took place as he was the only contender to get the support of 100 MPs after Liz Truss resigned after just 44 days in office, becoming the shortest-serving PM ever. 

The ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer headed to Buckingham Palce mid-morning where the King asked him to form a government. With the world watching the chaos in British politics which has seen three prime ministers in 50 days, US President Joe Biden hailed Mr Sunak's appointment as "a milestone" which "matters". 

Mr Sunak, 42, is the first PM that the King has appointed, with his late mother Queen Elizabeth having seen 15 premiers during her 70 year reign, from Winston Churchill to Liz Truss. After the recent disatrous period at the heart of government and the financial turmoil that it has caused, former Home Office minister Victoria Atkins told Times Radio "We can be extremely proud of the fact that we now have a Prime Minister who has the character, the decency, the brains and the vision to do this job really well and we should also be quietly proud that he is the first British Asian Prime Minister that we will see work at number 10 as well."

Mr Sunak's grandparents were from Punjab state before the Indian subcontinent was divided into two countries, India and Pakistan, in 1947 after British colonial rule ended. His family settled in the UK in the 1960s and he was born in Southampton in 1980.