New pm of uk

NEW DELHI: Rishi Sunak on Monday became the new prime minister of For Sunak, who is set to be UK's first Hindu prime minister, the victory couldn't have come on a better day than Diwali. By Monday afternoon, he had amassed public nominations from nearly all top Tory lawmakers, pipping his only remaining rival in the race — Penny Mordaunt — who had the public backing of just 26 lawmakers. She later withdrew from the race. Here's all you need to know about Rishi Sunak, UK's new PM ... Indian roots Sunak will create history by becoming the first person of Indian heritage and the first person of Hindu faith to lead Britain. His grandparents were from Punjab and emigrated to Britain from eastern Africa in the 1960s. They arrived with "very little", Sunak told MPs in his maiden speech in 2015. His father was a family doctor in Southampton on the southern English coas, and his mother ran a local pharmacy. Growing up, Sunak waited tables in a local Indian restaurant, before progressing to Oxford and then Stanford University in California. He insists that both his own family's experience, and that of his mega-rich wife's, are a "very Conservative" story of hard work and aspiration. Besides English, he knows both Hindi and Punjabi. A 'proud Hindu' Sunak is a devout Hindu and is a regular at the temple where he was born in Southampton. His daughters, Anoushka and Krishna, are also rooted in the Indian culture. When he became an MP, he swore his oath of allegiance on the Bhagavad Gita...

Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson have engaged in an extraordinary war of words over the former British prime minister’s failed attempts to elevate several close allies to the House of Lords. Mr Sunak accused his predecessor on Monday morning of having lobbied him to overturn due process and appoint three Conservative MPs to the House of Lords – claims Mr Johnson dismissed publicly as “rubbish”. The exchanges brought into the open the long-running dispute between the two men, which has caused a wider rift in the Conservative party and triggered a series of byelections that could test Mr Sunak’s grip on power. The public row began on Monday morning, three days after Downing Street published Mr Johnson’s resignation honours list without the names of three MPs whom the former prime minister wanted to make peers – Nadine Dorries, Nigel Adams and Alok Sharma. Asked about the controversy during a speech at London Tech Week, Mr Sunak defended the decision not to include those names, given that the House of Lords Appointments Commission (Holac) recommends that any MP recommended for a peerage should stand down to take up the new position within six months. “Boris Johnson asked me to do something that I wasn’t prepared to do, because I didn’t think it was right. That was either overrule the Holac committee, or make promises to people,” he said. “Now, I wasn’t prepared to do that, so I didn’t think he was right. And if people don’t like that then tough.” Mr Johnson hit back within hours...