Rishi Sunak education

2022 - 10 - 24

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Image courtesy of "The Guardian"

Spotlight on Rishi Sunak's family as they prepare to enter No 10 (The Guardian)

His wife, Akshata Murty, is the daughter of a billionaire; their garden parties are one of the hottest tickets in their home town.

Between 2018 and 2019 he served as parliamentary undersecretary of state for local government, before entering cabinet in 2019 as chief secretary to the Treasury. These include a Grade II-listed manor house in the village of Kirby Sigston, near Northallerton, in his Richmond constituency, which was bought for ยฃ1.5m in 2015; and a five-bedroom townhouse in South Kensington, London, which records show was last sold for ยฃ4.5m in 2010. Murty runs her own fashion label, Akshata Designs, and is also the director of a venture capital firm founded by her father in 2010. He was re-elected in 2019 with a majority of 27,210. Their two children, Krishna and Anoushka, appeared with Sunak on the campaign trail in the leadership contest against Liz Truss during the summer. Sunak was born in Southampton in 1980 to Indian parents who had moved to the UK from east Africa.

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