September’s loser is October’s big winner. After the brief and disastrous Liz Truss experience, the Conservatives have appointed their third prime minister in seven weeks. Rishi Sunak [a été désigné] diwali day [fête majeure dans le monde indien], a strong symbol for this Briton of Indian origin and Hindu faith. He is the first-ever black man to become UK Prime Minister, and only the second from a minority background after Benjamin Disraeli [qui a dirigé le pays dans les années 1860-1870 et était issu d’une famille juive séfarade].
On the left, the importance of the event is minimized. Faiza Shaheen, future legislative candidate for the Labor Party, urged her Twitter followers not to hail Sunak’s appointment as a triumph for diversity or social mobility, on the grounds that he is “very rich” and former student “from a prestigious private school”. Obviously, here is a leader from diversity who does not count as such.
In fact, there is no better example of the upward mobility values at work in successful immigrant communities, especially in those families of Indian descent who, like Rishi Sunak’s, have gone through East Africa before settling in the United Kingdom where their contribution to society has been enormous.
Better than France and its virulent secularism
Prime Minister Sunak will help establish post-Brexit Britain as the advanced multi-racial democracy that it is, a land of justice and tolerance that, for the most part, feels good about its diversity
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