The general election in Britain is due to be held just three weeks from now, on July 4. The Conservative Party had won a majority in the House of Commons in 2010, 2015, 2017 and 2019, albeit with different Prime Ministers -- starting with David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss to the incumbent, Rishi Sunak. However, this is poised for a change, given the seemingly irreversible lead of the Labour Party under Sir Keir Starmer over the Rishi Sunak-led Conservatives.
Almost all pollsters validate the writing on the wall. It is time to bid farewell to the Tories and await the pragmatist, reformist and constantly evolving Labour Party leader Keir Starmer as the next PM of Great Britain. Why should this concern India? Because Britons of Indian origin constitute the UK’s largest ethnic minority, at about 2.
5 per cent of the population, or two million. The fact that Rishi Sunak too is of Indian origin and has often worn his religio-cultural identity on his brown sleeves, the subliminal aftereffects can be imagined in the erstwhile empire where it was once imperiously claimed that “the sun never set”. Beyond the patent political correctness that defines most Britons, to assume that there would be no subliminal racist concerns with a PM named “Rishi” (sage in Sanskrit), that too within the ranks of the Tories, is to live under a rock! As could be normally expected, would attempts by Rishi Sunak’s successor, Keir Starmer, to “un-do” Rishi and his legacy, lea.
