Rishi Sunak will become Britain’s new prime minister today – and its first Hindu leader, just in time for Diwali – after an extraordinarily turbulent year in Westminster and for him personally.
It was his departure from government alongside Sajid Javid on 5 July that triggered the resignation landslide – in which almost 60 Conservative ministers followed suit over a madcap 40-hour period – that finally brought an end to Boris Johnson’s scandal-plagued premiership, setting in motion the red-hot chaos of recent months.
