Rishi Sunak, the first Indian-origin Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, is also modern England’s youngest PM at the age of 42. He inherits a staggering economy and a shell-shocked and divided party, and he now faces the huge task of stabilising both party and country in a time of economic and political turbulence.
Seen as a steady and reassuring hand in his time as Chancellor during the pandemic, how will Rishi Sunak’s government steady a rocky ship? How will the new political disposition affect the ongoing India-UK free trade agreement negotiations?
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