“Repair is also stylish” Sunak Lee, a man with a red bag

On the 3rd (local time) on the 3rd (local time), when British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak (41) left the official residence in London’s Downing 11th Street and showed out a red bag, the camera flash went off at once. It is a so-called’red box’ containing the UK budget for this year to be reported to the House of Representatives. Last year, there was a lot of government spending due to the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19).

But what drew more attention than this was the video’Budget 2021′ produced and released by the British Ministry of Finance two days ago.

The video of about 5 minutes and 40 seconds that Minister Soo Nak posted on Twitter on the 1st (local time) reflects the past year from his point of view. Screen effects such as various lighting and slow motion and string music are spread in the background, and Sunak has an interview in the middle. Minister Sunak mentioned “I·me” 26 times, explaining how much the Ministry of Finance was concerned about the economic situation. There are close to 100 photos he took while going from local shops to industrial sites. Prime Minister Boris Johnson rarely appeared in the video.

This video recorded 867,000 views as of the 5th. This is an unprecedented shame for politicians. With this video, Minister Su Nak once again cemented his position as a star politician, but he had to bear some criticism as well. The Guardian published a column on the 4th (local time) saying, “I don’t know why he wants to invest in his brand with a slick video when Prime Minister Boris Johnson is politically stable.” In addition, he cited an anonymous member of the Conservative Party and introduced the point that he is “too much self-promotion before the budget proposal is announced.”

Minister Sunak has been steadily gaining popularity with the image of’honest and young conservatives’. Although a Conservative party politician, he made a drastic move in the corona 19 phase, saying, “We have to do anything to overcome the economic crisis.” According to YouGov, a global polling agency in December of last year, 48% of them favored him and 32% of them disliked him. This is in contrast to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s 35% favorability and 54% disfavor of the same period. In the investigation, Minister Soonak was evaluated for refraining from speaking, but speaking honestly, unlike hard-line right-wing politicians.

Although he has never officially recognized it, he is considered the next prime minister, who is influential in politics. Norman Tevitt, an elder politician from the Conservative Party who served as the Minister of Employment and the like, wrote on the British Telegraph last year that “Soonak will succeed the next prime minister.” According to Bloomberg News, Sunak also takes care of local politics by meeting with 7-10 Conservative party lawmakers every morning to eat together.

It wasn’t easy for him, a third-generation Indian immigrant, to reach second place in the British politics. When he was first designated as the finance minister, a grim gaze poured into him, a Hindu. Sunak is an Indian immigrant and was born to parents who were doctors and pharmacists respectively. According to The Economist, when he was in school, he became interested in the economy by helping him open an account at his mother’s pharmacy. After graduating from Winchester College and Oxford University and earning an MBA from Stanford University, Sunak worked as an analyst at Goldman Sachs, an investment bank, before starting a hedge fund company.

He entered politics in 2015 when he was 35 years old, replacing William Hague, who served as foreign secretary, and was elected as a member of the House of Representatives in Richmond and North Yorkshire. Afterwards, he became the Minister of Finance in February last year after working as the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Housing and Public Autonomy and the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Finance.

Minister Sunak is also famous for being the son-in-law of Narayana Murti, who is also known as’India Bill Gates’. Murti is the founder of Infosys Technology, one of India’s top three software companies. His daughter, Akshata Murti, met and dated while she was a student at Stanford University. He is also said to have a strong relationship with Carrie Simmons, the fiancée of Prime Minister Johnson, who recently emerged from the British politics.

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