When Rishi Sunak became the UK’s shortest male prime minister since Winston Churchill – Sunak is reportedly 1.68m (5ft 6in) compared with the UK male average of 1.78m ( 5ft 10in) – jokes about his height ensued. But does height really matter? I asked Prof Majid Ezzati , whose large-scale study analysed how height has changed globally in the last 100 years.
I didn’t take the Rishi Sunak jokes too seriously. After all, if you can’t be schoolyard about arguably Britain’s most powerful billionaire, who can you? At the same time, I hear that surgery to add height has become increasingly popular with men.
Oh gosh!
