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Onetime Colony’s Offspring Produce New UK Leaders

Britain hopes he is the strong ethical and efficient leader it needs

Oct 25, 2022
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By: John Elliott

“Let’s see what an intelligent, young, multi-cultural, economics-fluent leader can do for us,” said a source who is in his 40s, when it was clear that Rishi Sunak, 42, would become Britain’s third prime minister this year, the youngest for decades, and the first non-white occupant of 10 Downing Street.

Of Indian descent with a Punjabi fam…

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