In the middle of 2019, Rishi Sunak was an unknown junior minister
in the local government department. Seven months later, at the age
of thirty-nine, he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, grappling with
the gravest economic crisis in modern history. Michael Ashcroft's
new book charts Sunak's ascent from his parents' Southampton
pharmacy to the University of Oxford, the City of London, Silicon
Valley - and the top of British politics. It is the tale of a
super-bright and hardgrafting son of immigrant parents who marries
an Indian heiress and makes a fortune of his own; a polished urban
southerner who wins over the voters of rural North Yorkshire - and
a cautious, fiscally conservative financier who becomes the
biggest-spending Chancellor in history. Sunak was unexpectedly
promoted to the Treasury's top job in February 2020, with a brief
to spread investment and opportunity as part of Boris Johnson's
levelling-up agenda. Within weeks, the coronavirus had sent Britain
into lockdown, with thousands of firms in peril and millions of
jobs on the line. As health workers battled to save lives, it was
down to Sunak to save livelihoods. This is the story of how he tore
up the rulebook and went for broke.
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