Rishi Sunak at No. 10: a triumph for diversity?

The first non-white Prime Minister shows the ‘enormous power’ of a changing Britain, yet many feel Sunak is ‘too rich to be representative’

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak holding his first Cabinet meeting
Sunak now has a ‘historic chance’ to restore the UK’s image abroad
(Image credit: WPA Pool / Pool)

Britain’s first non-white and first Hindu prime minister “has arrived to little fanfare”, said Sunny Hundal in the FT. Most Conservatives welcomed Rishi Sunak as PM, while suggesting that his background was largely irrelevant. Many on the left “cautiously celebrated the broken glass ceiling”, but said that – since Sunak and his wife have a joint fortune of about £730m – he was “too rich to be representative”.

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