Biography

Although he announced his decision to run for prime minister of the United Kingdom on 8 July 2022, the day after Boris Johnson's resignation, he had already registered the internet domain for his leadership bid's website on 23 December 2021.

In April 2022, he became the first Chancellor of the Exchequer in British history to be criminally sanctioned while in office.

After comic Frankie Boyle called him "a guy whose greatest desire in life is to be pegged by Thatcher's ghost" on Episode #26.2 (2022), eleven viewers complained.

He is the first non-white person to serve as prime minister of the United Kingdom, being of Punjabi Indian descent. He is also the first non-Christian PM, being Hindu.

Following the resignation of Liz Truss as prime minister of the United Kingdom after only 45 days in office, Sunak launched a second bid for the leadership of the Conservative Party and won unopposed on October 24, making him prime minister-designate.