Rishi Sunak’s meteoric rise, in the seven years since his first term as deputy Prime Minister, leaves you speechless. A member of Theresa May’s government just three years after her first electoral victory in 2015, she was then the No. 2 in the Treasury, then becoming Secretary of the Treasury in 2020, under Boris Johnson. The trajectory is due to the quality of the man, who is considered a workaholic, as well as the circumstances of his rise between Brexit and the pandemic. But it also stems from major changes in the Conservative Party, which began some twenty years ago.
In 2002, explained our specialist Theresa May described her own camp as evil partythat “bad guys party”, because of its inability to make room for minorities. Since then, the Conservatives have been wide open, and that’s only natural “that they found a profile of Indo-Pakistani origin, perfectly compatible with Margaret Thatcher’s conservative ideas”. In the 1990s, he spoke directly to these voters, “because they share the same values: family, patriarchy, or free enterprise”. Several conservative figures from the Indian subcontinent also came before Sunak, such as Priti Patel or Sajid Javid, who could also become Prime Minister.
