Rishi Sunak is the first British Asian Hindu to become Prime Minister and only the second from an ethnic minority to hold the post since Benjamin Disraeli, who was Jewish.
As a British Asian myself, I see his appointment as symbolic – at last the bar to the highest power in the land has been lifted for people of colour.
Whether or not you like the man, or agree with his policies, having a non-white prime minister is something we should all feel proud of. Even when Barack Obama became the first Black president of the USA in 2008, I couldn’t imagine a Black or Asian person being elected to lead our nation in my lifetime.
