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In October, Rishi Sunak became the first UK prime minister of colour, and the first Hindu to hold the top job. His grandparents were born in British India, his parents in east Africa, and he was born in Southampton in 1980.
The rise of politicians of south Asian descent in the Conservative Party during the 2020s is worth putting into its longer historical context. One of the first MPs of Indian ethnicity to be elected to the British parliament was Dadabhai Naoroji in 1892. Winning his seat in the London constituency of
