In the contest to succeed Boris Johnson as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunak is currently the front-runner and heavy favourite.
Opinions on Rishi Sunak are split, despite the fact that he is presently the front-runner in the contest to succeed Boris Johnson as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
According to the viewpoint of some, he is the product of foreign parents who, despite the challenges he faced, rose to the highest levels of British culture and politics.
To other people, he is simply the personification of Westminster, having pals who are “aristocrats” and from the “upper class,” but not friends from the “working class.”
In addition to this, a recent survey conducted by YouGov found that forty percent of people believe he lacks the necessary skills. Despite this, he is one of the remaining three competitors and is considered Johnson’s most likely successor.
Before entering the world of politics, Sunak completed his education at Oxford and Stanford, after which he worked as an analyst for the Goldman Sachs investment bank and later as a manager for a hedge fund. When Johnson appointed him chancellor of the exchequer in 2020, he first came to the attention of the general public.
Sunak had just taken office when the coronavirus epidemic broke out; this was his first significant endurance test, but it also gave him the opportunity to make a profile for himself.
It was effectively carte blanche from Johnson for him to continue wage payments, furlough, loans for failing enterprises, and vouchers for restaurant outings, all of which contributed to his rise to popularity with the general populace.
“Sunak was operating under a PM who was keen to spend money, particularly on infrastructure projects designed to deliver the levelling up agenda and more generally because Johnson made spending promises without always considering how to pay for them,” Neil Carter, professor of politics at the University of York, told Al Jazeera. Carter is quoted as saying that “Sunak was operating under a PM who was keen to spend money, particularly on infrastructure projects designed to deliver the levelling up agenda.”
“But certain actions backfired – the eat out to help out initiative may have saved the restaurant sector but almost certainly contributed to the devastating second COVID wave in autumn 2020,” he said. “The eat out to help out initiative may have saved the restaurant sector but almost certainly contributed to the devastating second COVID wave.”
Despite this, Sunak’s popularity continued to rise in Great Britain in the year 2020, right along with the country’s mounting new debt.
Stephen Elstub, a reader in British politics, told Al Jazeera that Johnson appeared to be willing to let Sunak do the task despite the fact that this may have been a mistake.
“During the pandemic, when the government was making regular televised briefings, the chancellor got to announce the government handouts while the prime minister was telling us how many people had died and that we all needed to stay at home,” he said. “During the pandemic, when the government was making regular televised briefings, the chancellor got to announce the government handouts while the prime minister was telling us how many people