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Former Treasury Secretary Rishi Sunak has been named the UK’s new Prime Minister.
At 42, the youngest prime minister in 210 years and from a family of Indian descent, he became the first non-white prime minister in British history.
They are also a family of golden spoons, whose fortunes amount to 1.2 trillion won in Korean money.
India has long been under British colonial rule.
By overcoming the barriers of racism, I have written a new history of ‘colonial prime minister’.
Correspondent Cho Myung-ah will deliver it to you.
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New Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has appeared at 10 Downing Street in London.
Prime Minister Sunak, who gave his first official speech after being approved by King Charles III, said he will focus on reviving the economy and unifying the country.
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“(The Truss policy was unintentionally) a mistake, and I was elected party leader and prime minister to correct that mistake.”
The birth of the British non-white prime minister from an Indian immigrant family has been welcomed by British Indians and Asians.
This is because the British, who had colonized India, were led by Indian ancestry.
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“Indians are proud that an Indian has become Prime Minister in a country that has ruled India for at least 100 years.”
Sunak, who took an orthodox elite course under the father of a doctor and the mother of a pharmacist, married the daughter of the founder of an Indian IT conglomerate.
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“The problem would be that he is not seen as a person on the side of ordinary people. He seems (in this sense) a less realistic person.”
Prime Minister Sunak must immediately face the consequences of former Prime Minister Truss, who announced his resignation 44 days after proposing a massive tax cut.
The UK 10-year government bond yield fell 0.32% and the pound rose 0.9%, indicating expectations of a recovery from the economic crisis.
I’m Cho Myung-ah from MBC News in Paris.
Video coverage: Lee Yoo-kyung (Paris) / Video editing: Oh Yu-rim
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