Sunak’s remarkable rise would be significant even if he did not land the top job
Sunak’s remarkable rise — at 42, he’s the youngest prime minister since William Pitt the Younger and the first South Asian to hold the premiership — would be significant even if he did not land the top job.The NP Comment newsletter from columnist Colby Cosh and NP Comment editors tackles the important topics with boldness, verve and wit. Get NP Platformed delivered to your inbox weekdays by 4 p.m. ET.
While there are many stories of immigrants rising up from hardship, another measure of a country’s integration of immigrants is how quickly the path of privilege is opened to newcomers, as it was for Sunak and Singh. He was not the dirt poor descendant of slaves, left homeless as a child and taken in by his Black grandparents, at which point he was first introduced to indoor plumbing. That would be Clarence Thomas, who, for political reasons, is rarely celebrated as an emblem of Black uplift.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman has a similar story. Her grandparents left India for Kenya and Mauritius, and then her parents emigrated to the U.K.
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