Rishi Sunak: Who is the UK's next prime minister and what are his policies?
Rishi Sunak is set to become the UK's third prime minister in a year after Liz Truss's 44-day-long premiership came to an abrupt halt last Wednesday.
He had previously run, and lost, against Truss in a Conservative Party leadership race in August, triggered by Boris Johnson's scandal-induced resignation.
Sunak ended up winning the latest selection round after opponents -- including Johnson -- pulled out.
As Sunak heads to 10 Downing Street in the midst of a deepening political hurricane, we take a quick look at the 42-year-old former finance minister's background and policies.
Sunak was born in the coastal city of Southampton as the son of African immigrant parents of Punjabi-Indian descent. Upon entering office, Sunak will thus become the UK's first Hindu and non-white prime minister.
Raised by an upwardly mobile family, the soon-to-be PM attended some of Britain's most exclusive academic institutions, where he rubbed shoulders with the country's aristocracy.
Following a private ("prep") primary education, he headed off to Winchester -- a centuries-old secondary school in the south of England with a £46,000 (€53,000) annual fee for boarding pupils -- and went onto read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Lincoln College, Oxford. He finished his studies with an MBA at Standford University after winning a Fulbright Scholarship.
Sunak's own personal background has come under significant media scrutiny, with detractors branding him as "privileged" and far removed from the struggles of ordinary Britons.
To add fuel to the fire, a recently resurfaced clip from a 2001 BBC documentary on Britain's middle classes depicts a young Sunak -- then an Oxford student -- talking about his social circle and denying he had "working-class"
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