After being invited to form a government by King Charles, Mr Sunak became the UK's 57th prime minister.
He is the third prime minister this year and will enter Downing Street as the youngest PM in two centuries
How old is Rishi Sunak and what age was Tony Blair when he became PM?
Rishi Sunak was born in Southampton on May 12, 1980, making him 42 years old. Tony Blair became the Prime Minister on May 2, 1997, at the age of 43 yet he was widely thought to be the “youngest person to become Prime Minister” despite another man, Lord Liverpool, who became PM at age 42 in 1812 – this makes Sunak the youngest Prime Minister in over a century.
Who is Rishi Sunak married to?
In 2009, Rishi Sunak tied the knot with Akshata Murthy over a two-day wedding held in Bangalore - the capital of India’s southern Karnatake state. Akshata Murthy runs a fashion label called Akshata Designs and she is a director of a venture capital firm which was founded by her father, N.R Narayana Murthy, in 2010.
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How much is Rishi Sunak worth?
In 2022, Rishi Sunak made the Sunday Times rich list which details the wealthiest people from the UK. A report by the Guardian revealed that this makes him the first ever frontline politician to feature on this annual ranking since it first aired in 1989.
The list said that Rishi Sunak and his wife’s net worth is £730 million and their source of that wealth was put as “technology and hedge fund”. It has also been reported that Sunak owns multiple properties across the world which are valued at over £15 million.
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How tall is Rishi Sunak in feet?
Rishi Sunak is 170 centimetres tall (or 5 feet 6 inches). This makes him roughly 4 inches shorter than Boris Johnson and, according to the Office for National Statistics, 5cm shorter than the average man in the UK.
There has been buzz on Twitter that he has tried to “appear taller” as this would improve his public image by making him seem less short in stature.
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The Mirror reports that Rishi Sunak is a practising Hindu. Although it is said he rarely talks publicly about his faith it is also known that he takes his Commons oath on the Bhagavad Gita - a sacred Sanskrit text.
October 24, the day that Sunak was announced as the next PM, overlapped with Diwali – one of the biggest religious festivals worldwide celebrated by Hindus among other faith groups.
In a five-bedroom bungalow on a street named La Jennifer Way, a company that would change the world was just beginning to take shape. The year was 2004 and the unremarkable property with a small swimming pool that took up most of the backyard was in Silicon Valley, a part of California that was rapidly becoming synonymous with revolutionary business start-ups. Among the occupants of the house was one Mark Zuckerberg, who along with his housemates was busy building a company called Facebook. Before long, he would be one of the richest men on Earth.
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