BBC chairman Richard Sharp on Friday announced his resignation after an inquiry found he had breached rules for failing to declare his involvement in arranging a loan for then prime minister Boris Johnson. “I feel that this matter may well be a distraction from the Corporation’s good work were I to remain in post until the end of my…
As a parliamentary committee sits to decide whether the disgraced former PM lied to the Commons, it is not only Johnson on trial but the integrity of the entire UK political system Boris Johnson can be usefully understood as the British manifestation of a global phenomenon: part of a coterie of populist and far-right leaders who won power using…
The rise of Rishi Sunak as British Prime Minister ends as a beautiful story that started with political rejection in East Africa. The first British-Asian to hold UK’s highest office has roots in Tanzania, before his grandparents shifted to Britain in the 1960s. The shift was mainly caused by post-independence legislation and regulations rejecting dual citizenship recognition. Tanzania and…
What you need to know: British PM’s parents were part of the ‘stateless’ Indians who had found themselves characterised as the ‘undesirables’ of the British Empire and struggled to reach London – where a quota system on British Asian migrants was in place When new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s parents left Kenya in the 1960s, it was not…