Rishi Sunak was an unnamed junior minister in the local government department in the middle of 2019. At the age of 39, he became Chancellor of the Exchequer seven months later and faced the worst economic crisis in recent times. Sunak's rise from his parents' Southampton pharmacy to the University of Oxford, the City of London, Silicon Valley, and the pinnacle of British politics is mapped out in Michael Arthur's new book. It tells the story of three men: a polished urban Southerner who wins over the voters of rural North Yorkshire; a cautious, fiscally conservative financier who becomes the biggest-spending Chancellor in history; and a super-smart, hardworking son of immigrants who marries an Indian heiress and makes a fortune for himself. In February 2020, Sunak received an unexpected promotion to the Treasury's top position with the mandate to expand opportunity and investment as part of Boris Johnson's leveling-up strategy. The coronavirus quickly put Britain on lockdown, putting millions of jobs and countless of businesses in danger. Sunak was responsible for preserving livelihoods as medical professionals fought to preserve lives.
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