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It is unlikely that Rishi Sunak will stay on at 10, Downing Street beyond July 4, with the Conservative Party heading for a historic drubbing. This, even though the economy under Britain’s first ethnic-Indian Prime Minister has turned the corner. On the contrary, his British compatriots will probably remember his blonde and blue-eyed predecessors with more affection despite their handling of the aforementioned economy and other aspects of quotidian British life.

Will Britain ever have the humility to introspect on their treatment of Sunak and what that portends? After the Boris Johnson and Liz Truss implosions, Sunak could just as well have headed off to California—as he is being taunted about doing after July 4—but instead he chose to try and rescue his party and its government. He was just 42 and could have slipped back into the finance world and added to the millions in his kitty. Instead, he took on a big challenge.



Sunak mistakenly thought that as he is British by birth and passport, most Britons regarded him as such too and would give him a fair chance. But the way he has been treated by mainstream media and social media reiterates that 82 per cent of the “multi-cultural” rainbow nation Britain is white, and still consider non-whites to be outsiders, though they are more cautious now about articulating it. Rainbow-wallas are acceptable as adjutants in politics, but not as top leaders.

Yet. Britons supposedly do not vote along ethnic lines but on bread and butt.

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