Who is the man behind the budget?
RISHI Sunak has been a shining light for many during the coronavirus pandemic, thanks to his reforms as Chancellor of the Exchequer since February 2020.
MP for Richmond in Yorkshire since 2015, Rishi Sunak, is the son of Yashvir, an NHS GP, and Usha, a pharmacist, who moved to the UK from Punjab, India, in the 1960s.
Born in 1980 in Southampton, Hampshire, he attended the prestigious Winchester College before going on to study politics, philosophy and economics at Oxford University.
He also earned an MBA from Stanford University in the US, becoming a Fulbright scholar.
In 2009, he married Akshata Murthy, the daughter of Indian billionaire Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy, who co-founded business consulting firm Infosys.
