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London, Oct 25 (IANS) <keyword id="221875" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="rishi-sunak" source="Orion">Rishi Sunak</keyword>, who will on Tuesday become the UKs 57th Prime Minister, is richer than King Charles III and, at 42, younger than every predecessor except William Pitt the Younger, the media reported. Sunak will also be the UK's first ever person of colour to lead the country, and first Hindu Prime Minister, The Guardian reported. He was born in Southampton in 1980 to Indian parents who had moved to the UK from east Africa. His father was a general practioner and his mother ran her own pharmacy. The eldest of three children, Sunak was educated at a private boarding school, Winchester College, which costs 43,335 pounds a year to attend. He was head boy, and has in recent years made multiple donations to the school. Sunak went on to study politics, philosophy and economics at the University of Oxford. He was awarded a first-class degree. He later gained an MBA at Stanford University, where he met Akshata Murty, his future wife, but where few others remember him, The Guardian reported. Murty, 42, is the daughter of the Indian billionaire NR Narayana Murthy, often described as the Bill Gates of India, who founded the software company Infosys. According to reports, his daughter has a 0.91 per cent stake in the company, worth about 700 million pounds. The couple married in her home town of Bengaluru in a two-day ceremony in 2009 attended by 1,000 guests. They have two daughters, Krishna and Anoushka. In April this year, it emerged that Murty was a non-domiciled UK resident, meaning she avoided UK taxes on her international earnings in return for paying an annual charge of 30,000 pounds. Without that non-dom status she could have been liable for more than 20 million pounds of UK taxes on these windfalls, it was reported. After a public outcry, her spokesperson announced she would start paying UK taxes on her overseas earnings to relieve political pressure on her husband, The Guardian reported. Still, Sunak and Murty's combined fortune is estimated to be 730 million pounds, double the estimated 300 million-350 million pounds wealth of King Charles III and Camilla, Queen Consort. They own four properties spread across the world and valued at more than 15 million pounds, The Guardian reported.

Rishi Sunak, Akshata Murty's combined fortune is 2x that of King Charles III

<ul><li><keyword id="1806167" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="murty" source="Orion">Murty</keyword> has a reported £<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-61055789">700</a> million pounds stake in her father’s company, Infosys. </li><li>She has a networth of around $1.3 billion, according to Bloomberg. </li><li>Apart from being a fashion designer, she is the director of Digme Fitness and owns shares in Wendy’s India and Jamie Oliver restaurants. </li><li>Murty was surrounded by controversies over evading tax on foreign income from India. </li></ul>Akshata Narayana Murty was born in 1980 to a young ambitious computer engineer and a computer scientist who were finding their foot in the yet-to-evolve software market of the country. While most of her young age was spent with her paternal grandparents, it did not stop her parents — N R <keyword id="6355623" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="narayana-murthy" source="Orion">Narayana Murthy</keyword> and Sudha Murthy – from drawing the line in terms of parenting her and her brother both. Hence, Akshata and Rohan were one of those rare 80-born children who lived without TV and spent their time in better pursuits like reading and spending time with real people instead of TV characters. Now, even as she holds the distinction of being UK’s first Indian first lady, billionaire Akshata Murty is known for much more than that. She is a fashion designer, venture capitalist and entrepreneur. The latest title however came with its own pressures. Murty, born in India and non-domiciled in the UK, came under the spotlight after her husband <keyword id="221875" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="rishi-sunak" source="Orion">Rishi Sunak</keyword>, now the PM of UK, began his campaign. Murty comes from a family of wealth and reportedly has a £<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-61055789">700</a> million pound stake in Infosys, a company her parents founded along with others. Rishi Sunak and Akshata Murty’s combined net worth is £730 million, which is reportedly more than the head of the British monarchy <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/rishi-sunak-akshata-murtys-combined-fortune-is-2x-that-of-king-charles-iii/articleshow/95074007.cms">King Charles III</a>. Murty’s networth is $1.3 billion, according to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-30/rishi-sunak-s-wife-akshata-murty-builds-catamaran-ventures-ties-to-rich-families">Bloomberg</a>, largely due to a 0.91% stake in her father’s company Murty is one of Britain’s wealthiest businesswomen. They met at Stanford Born in Hubli in Karnataka, the daughter of N R Narayana Murthy, considered ‘father of the Indian IT sector’ and <keyword id="6355854" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="sudha-murty" source="Orion">Sudha Murty</keyword>, an acclaimed philanthropist and writer. Narayana Murthy is one of India’s wealthiest businessmen with a fortune of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._R._Narayana_Murthy#:~:text=As%20of%20October%202022%2C%20his,the%20world%20according%20to%20Forbes.&amp;text=Murthy%20was%20born%20and%20raised%20in%20Shidlaghatta%2C%20Karnataka.">$4.5 billion</a>. Sudha Murty is a Padma Shri awardee, considered India’s fourth highest civilian honour, and also heads Infosys’ non-profit arm Infosys Foundation. Akshata Murty attended high school in Bangalore and studied at Fashion Institute of Design &amp; Merchandising, Los Angeles. She also has a Masters degree in business administration from Stanford University. This is where she met Sunak and got married to him in Bangalore in 2009. The couple have two daughters Anoushka and Krishna. “When I met him we were 24 year old business school students, living in another country, and had no idea of where life would take us,” she tweeted in<a href="https://twitter.com/anmurty/status/1512711676709191680?t=Fbkv_a5GZg-EgAEhOtFDNQ&amp;s=08"> April</a>. ‘India remains the country of my birth, but I love UK too’ The shadow of her father’s company Infosys became heavier on her when it was reported earlier this year that the Indian IT company was still operating in Russia during the Ukraine war, despite counter claims by the company. Akshata Murty denied having any stake in the operations of the company, clarifying her position with Sky <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/rishi-sunak-calls-for-explanation-over-chancellors-wife-stake-in-company-operating-in-russia-12604359">News</a>. Another controversy which clouded the Sunak campaign was her status as a non-domiciled resident in the UK, which BBC reported gave her a way to evade £2.2 million in UK <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-61055789">taxes</a>. A non-domiciled is a resident citizen who has her permanent home in another country, in this case, India. “My decision to pay UK tax on all my worldwide income will not change the fact that India remains the country of my birth, citizenship, parents’ home and place of domicile. But I love the UK too,” Murty tweeted in <a href="https://twitter.com/anmurty/status/1512711676709191680?t=Fbkv_a5GZg-EgAEhOtFDNQ&amp;s=08">April</a>. As the law states, Murty as a non-domiciled citizen in the UK is not required to pay taxes on her overseas earnings, which came to £11.6 million she got as a <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-61055789">dividend</a> from her father’s company last year. Post an inquiry, Akshata agreed to pay her due taxes. She additionally pays £30,000 per year to maintain her non-domiciled <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-61045825">status</a>, BBC reported. “It has become clear that many do not feel it is compatible with my husband's role as chancellor. I understand and appreciate the British sense of fairness and I do not wish my tax status to be a distraction for my husband or to affect my family,” she <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-61045825">said.</a> Murty had previously started her own design label called Akshata Designs, which closed down in 2012. The next year, she became director of the family-owned venture capital firm called <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-30/rishi-sunak-s-wife-akshata-murty-builds-catamaran-ventures-ties-to-rich-families">Catamaran Ventures</a>, which invested in British luxury furniture The New Craftsmen and Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technology Corporation. She is also director at London-based Digme Fitness which is currently valued at £<a href="https://pomanda.com/company/09631514/digme-fitness-limited#:~:text=digme%20fitness%20limited%20Estimated%20Valuation&amp;text=Pomanda%20estimates%20the%20enterprise%20value,multiple%20(adjusted%20for%20liquidity).">7.2 million</a>. Murty also owns shares in two of famed British cook and entrepreneur Jamie Oliver restaurants, Wendy’s in India and in fitness brand Digme Fitness, according to <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/akshata-murty-billionaire-wife-of-rishi-sunak-runs-these-businesses/articleshow/95075345.cms?from=mdr">Economic Times</a>. Murty also heads the London branch of IT company <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akshata_Murty#cite_note-15">Soroco</a>, co-founded with her brother <keyword id="80837" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="rohan-murthy" source="Orion">Rohan Murthy</keyword> in 2014. ‘I know how <keyword id="4793" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="will-smith" source="Orion">Will Smith</keyword> felt at the Oscars’ Rishi, in a BBC news <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-60941902">podcast</a>, defending the smear campaign against his family, especially his wife, said, “I think it's totally fine for people to take shots at me. It's fair game. I'm the one sitting here and that's what I signed up for.” “But I feel, on reflection, both Will Smith and me having our wives attacked - at least I didn't get up and slap anybody, which is good”, he <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-60941902">added</a>. Rishi Sunak, until recently was the chancellor to the exchequer, residing in 11 Downing Street. He resigned in July and the family shifted to a house in West London. The<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akshata_Murty#cite_note-15"> couple</a> reportedly also own a manor house in <keyword id="15351944" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="kirby-sigston" source="Orion">Kirby Sigston</keyword>, a mews house in Central London, a penthouse apartment in Santa Monica and a flat on Old Brompton Road. They would soon be moving to 10 Downing Street. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/rishi-sunak-akshata-murtys-combined-fortune-is-2x-that-of-king-charles-iii/articleshow/95074007.cms">Rishi Sunak, Akshata Murty's combined fortune is 2x that of King Charles III</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/row-over-bravermans-reappointment-as-uk-home-secy/articleshow/95094758.cms">Row over Braverman's reappointment as UK Home Secy</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/rishi-sunaks-wife-akshata-murty-earned-15-3-mn-dividend-income-from-infosys-in-2022/articleshow/95076869.cms">Rishi Sunak's wife Akshata Murty earned $15.3 mn dividend income from Infosys in 2022</a>

Meet the first Indian first lady of UK - Akshata Murty

Rishi Sunak is the first Indian-origin British PM – Know more about one of UK’s richest premiers

<keyword id="221874" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="akshata" source="Orion">Akshata</keyword> <keyword id="1806167" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="murty" source="Orion">Murty</keyword>, Britain's incoming Prime Minister <keyword id="221875" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="rishi-sunak" source="Orion">Rishi Sunak</keyword>'s wife whose tax status on income from outside the UK had triggered a controversy, earned Rs 126.61 crore (USD 15.3 million) in dividend income in 2022 from her shareholding in India's second-largest IT firm <keyword id="6354512" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="infosys" source="Orion">Infosys</keyword>. Murthy, daughter of Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy, held 3.89 crore shares, or 0.93 per cent, of Infosys at the end of September, according to company filings with the stock exchanges. Her holding is worth Rs 5,956 crore (about USD 721 million) at Tuesday's trading price of Rs 1,527.40 on the BSE. Infosys paid Rs 16 per share final dividend for the 2021-22 fiscal on May 31, this year. For the current year, the firm this month announced an interim dividend of Rs 16.5, according to the company's stock exchange filings. The two dividends totalled Rs 32.5 per share or Rs 126.61 crore for Akshata. Infosys is among the best dividend-paying companies in India. In 2021, it paid a total of Rs 30 per share dividend, which would have given Akshata a total of Rs 119.5 crore in that calendar year. Sunak, 42, on Sunday won the race to lead the Conservative Party and is now set to become Britain's first prime minister of Indian origin and its youngest leader in modern times. While Sunak is a British national, his wife Akshata is an Indian citizen. Her non-domiciled status, which allows her to earn money abroad without paying taxes in Britain for a period of up to 15 years, has been a divisive issue in the UK. Non-domiciled status of Akshata became an issue of discussion in Britain when Sunak first entered the race to become the prime minister in April this year. At that time, her spokesperson had stated that as a citizen of India, she was unable to hold citizenship of another country and that "she has always and will continue to pay UK taxes on all her UK income." As the controversy snowballed, she at that time announced that she would pay UK tax on all of her worldwide earnings out of a "British sense of fairness".It is not known how much taxes she paid in the UK on the dividend income that accrued to her after April - Rs 16 per share final dividend for the 2021-22 fiscal year (April 2021 to March 2022) paid on May 31, 2022, and Rs 16.5 a share interim dividend for 2022-23 fiscal that is due to be paid on October 27. Born in her mother Sudha Murthy's hometown of Hubballi in northern Karnataka, Akshata did her schooling in Bengaluru, before moving to Claremont McKenna College in California, where she graduated with a dual major in economics and French. She did a fashion designing diploma from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles, which followed a short work stint at Deloitte and <keyword id="45009" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="unilever" source="Orion">Unilever</keyword>. She thereafter went on to pursue her MBA at Stanford where she met Rishi Sunak. The two married in 2009. The couple, who own a vast real estate portfolio, has two children, Krishna and Anoushka. They live in a 7 million townhouse in Kensington. They also own a flat in Kensington, a mansion in Rishi's Yorkshire constituency and a penthouse in California. The son of a pharmacist mother and doctor father, Sunak was educated at one of England's most renowned schools, Winchester, and then Oxford. He spent three years at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and later gained an MBA from Stanford in California, where he met his wife Akshata Murthy. According to Infosys filings, the promoters hold 13.11 per cent of the company. Of this, the Murty family owns 3.6 per cent (Narayana Murthy holds 0.40 per cent stake, his wife Sudha 0.82 per cent, son Rohan 1.45 per cent and daughter Akshata 0.93 per cent). Other promoters include co-founder S Gopalakrishnan, Nandan M Nilekani and S D Shibulal and their families. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/rishi-sunak-akshata-murtys-combined-fortune-is-2x-that-of-king-charles-iii/articleshow/95074007.cms">Rishi Sunak, Akshata Murty's combined fortune is 2x that of King Charles III</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/thelife/personalities/news/rishi-sunak-is-the-first-indian-origin-british-pm-know-more-about-one-of-uks-richest-premiers/slidelist/95077247.cms">Rishi Sunak is the first Indian-origin British PM – Know more about one of UK’s richest premiers</a>

Rishi Sunak's wife Akshata Murty earned $15.3 mn dividend income from Infosys in 2022

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Infosys, founded by Rishi Sunak's father-in-law, is still operating in Russia, The Guardian reported. </li><li>The IT firm still has staff in Moscow and is paying two subcontractors, per the report. </li></ul>Infosys, the company owned by the UK prime minister's billionaire father-in-law, is still operating in Moscow, eight months after it said it was pulling out, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/04/infosys-still-operating-russia-rishi-sunak-akshata-murty">The Guardian</a> reported.The Indian IT firm said it was exiting the Russian market in March following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, yet it still has a staffed office in the Russian capital and is paying subcontractors to carry out IT services for a global client, according to the newspaper. The Moscow office of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rhode-island-45-million-workforce-development-plan-2020-7?r=US&amp;IR=T">Infosys</a> still has a company plaque outside on a wall, per the report. Company sources told The Guardian that some administrative staff were still working there as part of the process to leave Russia. Those sources said staff still in Moscow were removing computer equipment and offloading it in a "sustainable" manner ahead of a move to India. A spokesperson told The Guardian that it was seeking to end the arrangement and had taken measures to "suspend its operations in Russia". They said employees working on client projects "have been transitioned out" and that Infosys was still paying two Moscow-based subcontractors to carry out work for a client. The spokesperson added: "Infosys does not have any active relationship with local Russian enterprises. The process of transitioning a few remaining partner and administrative staff is under way." Akshata Murthy, the wife of the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rishi-sunak-new-uk-prime-minister-wealth-akshata-murthy-britain-2022-10?r=US&amp;IR=T">UK's prime minister</a>, receives annual dividends worth £11.5 million ($13.1 million) from her 0.91% stake in Infosys that is worth about $785 million.Murthy, daughter of the company's founder, N.R. Narayana Murthy, this year agreed to pay tax in the UK on her dividends after it was revealed that she didn't do so due to her "non-domiciled" status.A Downing Street spokesperson told The Guardian: "Neither Akshata Murty nor any members of her family have any involvement in the operational decisions of the company."Infosys didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

The company that pays Akshata Murthy, wife of British PM Rishi Sunak, £11.5 million a year is still operating in Russia, report says

<ul><li>Just a month ahead of the budget, Britain is now making way for its new Finance Minister — <keyword id="221875" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Rishi-Sunak">Rishi Sunak</keyword>. </li><li>The 39-year old Indian-origin leader joined politics in 2014 and was the secretary to the Treasury before this. </li><li>Sunak figured his way into politics at the Oxford University, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics. </li><li>Before foraying into politics, he worked as an analyst for the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs.</li></ul>Just a month ahead of the budget, Britain is now making way for its new Finance Minister — Rishi Sunak. This comes after the sudden resignation of <keyword id="8776490" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="chancellor-sajid-javid">Chancellor Sajid Javid</keyword> over differences with Prime Minister <keyword id="6380867" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="boris-johnson">Boris Johnson</keyword>. The 39-year old Indian-origin leader — who was one of the early supporters of Johnson — joined politics in 2014 and was the secretary to the Treasury before this. Sunak, who was born in 1980 and brought up in Hampshire, UK after his grandparents moved there from Punjab, was a ‘first generation immigrant.’ Sunak is married to <keyword id="80833" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Akshata-Murthy">Akshata Murthy</keyword>, the daughter of the Indian billionaire and co-founder of IT services giant Infosys Narayana Murthy. “ I’m a first generation immigrant. My parents emigrated here, so you've got this generation of people who are born here, their parents were not born here, and they've come to this country to make a life,” he had once said. After completing his education at the elite private school Winchester College in the UK, he did his MBA from Stanford University and worked as an analyst for the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs and later moved on to become co-founder to a global investment firm. A plunge into politics But later Sunak figured his way into politics at the Oxford University, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics — often called the ‘trusted route for aspiring Westminster politicians.’ Since then, he has the leaders backing him up on his political career. Javid recently said for his successor — "The force is strong with young Sunak." While he remains a rising star of Conservative Party. Lord Hague of Richmond, the leader of his party calls him ‘exceptional.’ "From working in my mum's tiny chemist shop to my experience building large businesses, I have seen how we should support free enterprise and innovation to ensure Britain has a stronger future," Sunak had <a href="https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/rishi-sunak-son-in-law-of-narayana-murthy-appointed-uk-finance-minister-2179753">said</a> during the Brexit referendum. 
 
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 He is a fan of sports like football and cricket. Football player Matt Le Tissier is one of his childhood heroes. "One of my prized possessions is an 18th birthday card signed by the entire Saints team, but Matt in the middle there, which I've still got," Sunak <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07qtbdx">told the BBC</a> in October 2019. He was born in the UK but his upbringing keeps his roots within India. "In terms of cultural upbringing, I'd be at the temple at the weekend - I'm a Hindu - but I'd also be at the Saints game as well on a Saturday — you do everything, you do both." In the interview with BBC, he said he had been blessed for not facing much racism growing up but has one such incident in his memory still. "I was just out with my younger siblings, and I think I was probably a mid-teenager, and we were out at a fast food restaurant and there were people sitting nearby, it was the first time I'd experienced it, just saying some very unpleasant things. The 'P' word. And it stung. I still remember it. It seared in my memory. You can be insulted in many different ways, certainly in this job, but that stings in a way that is hard to explain," Sunak <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51490893">said</a>. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/abidwali-neemuchwalas-scorecard-as-wipros-ceo-for-four-years/articleshow/73794632.cms">Abidwali Neemuchwala’s scorecard as Wipro’s CEO for four years</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/corporates/news/boris-johnsons-brexit-deal-sets-tata-group-and-other-stocks-alight-in-india/articleshow/71632946.cms">Boris Johnson's Brexit deal sets Tata Group and other stocks alight in India</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/news/britains-new-parliament-votes-for-boris-johnsons-brexit-bill/articleshow/72906025.cms">Britain's new parliament votes for Boris Johnson's Brexit bill</a>

Britain’s new FM Rishi Sunak is a ‘first generation immigrant’ with family ties to Narayana Murthy, a doyen of Indian IT

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], September 27 (ANI): Power couple <keyword id="5357" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Twinkle-kHanna" source="Orion">Twinkle Khanna</keyword> and <keyword id="2823" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Akshay-Kumar" source="Orion">Akshay Kumar</keyword> met UK Prime Minister <keyword id="221875" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Rishi-Sunak" source="Orion">Rishi Sunak</keyword> during their <keyword id="6354968" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="London" source="Orion">London</keyword> visit. Twinkle took to Instagram on Wednesday to post a video of their visit to London. She captioned the post, "As much as I dislike wearing heels and dressing up, this evening was worth all the damaged toes. @sudha_murthy_official remains my hero, but it was pretty cool meeting her son-in-law, the prime minister :) @rishisunakmp Also put the sound on and hear @andreabocelliofficial Congratulations @anusuya12 and @theowo.london." https://www.instagram.com/p/Cxr6CM0M6cC/ The video starts with a performance of Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli at an event. At the end of the video Twinkle and Akshay can be seen posing with UK <keyword id="15345068" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="PM-Rishi-Sunak" source="Orion">PM Rishi Sunak</keyword>. Akshay and UK PM Sunak chose a formal suit while, Twinkle wore a white dress with a leopard design jacket. Earlier this month, Rishi Sunak along with his wife Akshata Murty arrived in New Delhi to attend the G20 Summit hosted by India under its Presidency. He along with his wife also offered prayers at Akshardham Temple in New Delhi during the visit. Meanwhile, on the work front, Akshay will be seen in the drama film 'Mission Raniganj: The Great Bharat Rescue'. Apart from this, Akshay will also be seen in the Hindi remake of the Tamil drama 'Soorarai Pottru' which is all set to hit the theatres on February 16, 2024. He also has an action thriller film 'Bade Miyan Chote Miyan' alongside Tiger Shroff and a comedy film 'Housefull 5' in his kitty.

Twinkle, Akshay pose with UK PM Rishi Sunak in London

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Keir Starmer is the UK's new prime minister after his Labour Party won Thursday's election.</li><li>He's had help opening up about his personal story from an unlikely source: Barack Obama.</li></ul>Britons have voted and the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/uk-labour-party-back-in-power-rishi-sunak-concede-defeat-2024-7">UK is posed up for a radical change in leadership</a>.The left-wing Labour Party has won more than 400 of the 650 seats in the House of Commons, which means its leader, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/keir-starmer-wins-new-labour-party-leader-replaces-jeremy-corbyn-2020-4">Keir Starmer</a>, is to be prime minister and 14 years of Conservative Party rule is over.Starmer declared, "Change begins now," at a rally early Friday morning as results poured in, but his victory came despite the fact he's often described as lacking <a target="_blank" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/06/keir-starmer-tony-blair-reform-new-labour-90s">charisma</a>.Jill Rutter, a research fellow at the London research group UK in a Changing Europe, had told <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/world/europe/keir-starmer-uk-election.html">The New York Times</a> he "does look relatively prime-ministerial," but added, "He's not going to set hearts racing."Starmer entered politics relatively late, first being elected to the UK's House of Commons at age 52 in 2015. Before that, he was a lawyer who rose to become the chief prosecutor for England and Wales; he had a big public profile but no need to ask the public for votes.As a candidate for high office, Starmer has had no choice but to tell his back story. After becoming Labour leader in 2020, he stressed his humble roots, often describing how his father worked as a toolmaker and his mother a nurse while they raised their children in a "pebble-dash semi," a small home adjoining another property.But Starmer has seemed, at times, ill at ease with the public display of emotion needed to tell his story, despite it being a political asset that offers a stark contrast with the outgoing prime minister <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rishi-sunak-uk-prime-minister-goldman-sachs-banker-hedge-fund-2022-10">Rishi Sunak</a>.Sunak, a former Goldman Sachs banker, is married to Akshata Murty, the daughter of the Indian billionaire and Infosys founder N. R. Narayana Murthy. The <a target="_blank" href="https://www.thetimes.com/sunday-times-rich-list/profile/article/rishi-sunak-and-akshata-murty-net-worth-sunday-times-rich-list-blp6mk660">Sunday Times</a> reported in May that the couple's net worth was £651 million, which is about $830 million.In recent months, Starmer has made a concerted effort to appear more relatable to voters and emphasize that contrast.He's been helped by an unlikely mentor: former US President <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-top-20-presidents-in-us-history-according-to-historians-2017-2">Barack Obama</a>.<h2 id="cbd8fb6f-43af-4c81-8889-3da7e252cf0d">Obama encouraged Starmer to be vulnerable</h2>In a series of Zoom calls, Obama, who served as US president from 2009 until 2017, encouraged Starmer to become more vulnerable and open with the public and has spoken with the Labour leader about the difficult decisions he made in the Oval Office.<a target="_blank" href="https://www.politico.eu/article/former-us-president-barack-obama-labour-party-leader-keir-starmer-open-up-be-yourself/">Politico</a> reported that the pair were first introduced by David Lammy, one of Starmer's key lieutenants, who will become his foreign secretary if Labour wins.Speaking on Politico's "Power Play" podcast in March, Lammy said he and Obama had known each other for 20 years since meeting at an event for Black alumni of Harvard University.When <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-68597108">Obama dropped in to meet Sunak in March</a>, he also met Lammy for dinner, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/03/18/barack-obama-rishi-sunak-informal-talks-downing-street/">The Telegraph</a> reported.Lammy said Obama's influence on Starmer was apparent when the Labour leader recently opened up about his family's backstory "much more comfortably than perhaps we saw a few years ago.""And I know that Obama has strong views that Keir should do that," he added.<div type="image" title="David Lammy and Keir Starmer talking." height="683" width="1024" msid="111492696" hostid="261"></div>Lammy was speaking after Starmer gave an extended interview to <a target="_blank" href="https://news.sky.com/story/sir-keir-starmer-wishes-he-addressed-distant-relationship-with-late-father-13092654">Sky News</a>, in which he described how his mother had Still's disease, a rare type of inflammatory arthritis.He said his father spent most of his time looking after her, and this had "squeezed" his "emotional space" and made him more emotionally distant from his children."I probably should have addressed that before he passed, and I wish I had, but I didn't," Starmer added.<a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/kitty_donaldson?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Kitty Donaldson</a>, a political journalist in the UK, told Business Insider this interview marked a turning point in Starmer's public display of emotion."Up until that point, Starmer had been very stiff, very practical, very straitlaced," Donaldson said, adding that Obama "unlocked" and "gave permission" for Starmer to open up."In terms of his leadership style, it's had an impact," she said. "Obama is quite laid back. This campaign has been more laid back than we have seen, and he seemed to enjoy going up and down the country speaking to people."<a target="_blank" href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/political-science/research/centre-us-politics-cusp/find-expert/dr-tom-packer">Tom Packer</a>, an honorary research fellow at University College London who specializes in US politics and elections, told BI that Starmer's backstory had become a "theme of the campaign."He said it helped challenge the idea that all UK politicians come from a "posh background" without struggle.<h2 id="1aed6752-c6d7-4a73-9ed2-718373438522">Obama could advise Starmer on how to deal with Trump</h2>Obama's and Starmer's relationship is likely to continue if Starmer wins the election on Thursday.Obama had helped Starmer since at least 2021, when <a target="_blank" href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/dec/12/barack-obama-gives-tips-to-keir-starmer-and-david-lammy-on-how-labour-can-regain-winning-ways">The Guardian</a> reported that they were involved in two hours' worth of private talks with Lammy about how center-left parties could return to power.Speaking on the "<a target="_blank" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/keir-starmer-international-uk-labour-leader-puts-the/id1202281739?i=1000628653155">Power Play</a>" podcast in September, Starmer said Obama was the US president he spoke to "most frequently.""I've spoken to him a number of times, and his analysis on the world is always interesting, his challenges, and just going through with him what he faced, how he rose to the challenges," Starmer said."It is always useful to test my ideas on people who won elections, people who've taken difficult decisions in power because that helps me think about how we might approach some of the decisions we might have to take if we do win that election," he added.Packer said Obama and Starmer's relationship made sense, given the decadeslong ties between the UK's Labour Party and the US Democratic Party.Donaldson meanwhile suggested Starmer might seek advice from Obama on dealing with Donald Trump if the former president is reelected in November.<div type="image" title="Donald Trump and Joe Biden standing behind podiums in a CNN studio." height="683" width="1024" msid="111492698" hostid="261"></div>Trump is leading the polls, and Biden's shaky performance during the first presidential debate on June 27 has led Democrats to panic and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jill-biden-support-joe-could-be-damaging-expert-step-down-2024-7">urge him to step aside for another candidate</a>.Speaking to Politico last September, Starmer said his team had been in talks with Biden, adding, "It's clear what my desired outcome would be."Packer told BI that Starmer and his team wouldn't want to put "their eggs in one basket" and would be eager to secure "some kind of relationship with Trump that works," regardless of their political differences.Trump "finds it hard to be nasty about people that are nice to him," Packer said.He added that if Starmer were "nice," a Labour government could end up with a good relationship with Trump "even if they disagree with him on policy."He noted that Starmer had been careful to avoid making anti-Trump comments during his election campaign.In an interview with BBC Radio 5 last week, Starmer was asked whether he agreed with Lammy's 2018 description of Trump as a "woman-hating neo-Nazi-sympathizing sociopath" and a "profound threat to the international order.""Those aren't words that I've ever used," Starmer responded."I know the job of the person who leads our country is to deal with the leaders of other countries, who are elected by their people. You don't always get to choose the leaders of other countries," he continued.Lammy has also softened his stance. He told a summit in May that Trump's position on European defense was "misunderstood" and he merely "wants Europeans to do more to ensure a better defended Europe," according to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-misunderstood-uk-labour-party/">Politico</a>.After <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-hush-money-trial-verdict-2024-5">Trump was convicted of paying Stormy Daniels hush money</a>, Starmer called it "unprecedented."But he said, "We will work with whoever is elected," adding, "We have a special relationship with the US that transcends whoever the president is."Correction: July 4, 2024 — An earlier version of this story misspelled N. R. Narayana Murthy's surname as Murty. It also misstated the date of Trump and Biden's first presidential debate. It was on June 27, not June 28.

How Obama mentored the new UK prime minister to help him tell his story

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A TikToker said she saw Rishi Sunak at a Taylor Swift-themed SoulCycle class in LA.</li><li>The prime minister has previously confessed to being a Swiftie and is on vacation in California.</li></ul>A TikToker said she came across an unexpected Swiftie at a 7 a.m. Taylor Swift-themed SoulCycle class in Santa Monica, California — UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.UK officials wouldn't elaborate on Sunak's exercise routine, but Sunak was on vacation in Santa Monica at the time the post described.The TikToker — Hannah Harmelin — said she realized somebody important was in the class because of heavy security there. She said the lights were kept dim, and she couldn't figure out who it was at first — hoping that it could be a celebrity, or even Swift herself, who was in LA at the time.She seemed a little disappointed to realize it was Sunak. "So the class ends, and I'm looking around trying to see where she is. Turns out it was the prime minister of the UK. Apparently, he's a Swiftie," she said.Sunak, who took office last year, has previously <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rishi-sunak-interview-the-chancellor-on-all-that-he-loves-in-the-arts-77b6kng06" target="_blank" rel="noopener">flexed his Swiftie credentials</a>, revealing that he and his wife have seen her in concert before.His love of cycling classes with poppy soundtracks is also well-documented: <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9710679/The-Rishi-Sunak-workout-Chancellor-starts-day-6am-Peloton-session-Britney-Spears.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sunak has spoken before</a> about starting his days with a 6 a.m. Peloton session, complete with a Britney Spears playlist.A spokesperson for 10 Downing Street, the office of the UK prime minister, declined to comment, citing Sunak's privacy while on a family vacation.Sunak told the UK radio station LBC that he was heading to California to spend part of his summer vacation at his £5 million, or about $6.3 million, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-holiday-california-b2386308.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">penthouse apartment in Santa Monica</a>.<div type="image" title="From left: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Anoushka Sunak, Akshata Murthy, and Krishna Sunak at Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California." height="3487" width="5000" msid="102452404" hostid="261"></div>Sunak has ties to California beyond his property there, having studied for an MBA at Stanford before his political career.It was there he met his wife, the billionaire Akshata Murthy, whose father founded the IT giant Infosys.Sunak has often expressed his love of music and pop culture. He previously said he <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rishi-sunak-interview-the-chancellor-on-all-that-he-loves-in-the-arts-77b6kng06" target="_blank" rel="noopener">had to abandon a trip to Coachella</a> because he was appointed the UK finance minister, and recently weighed in on the "<a href="https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1682812164111728643" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barbenheimer</a>"<a href="https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1682812164111728643" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> debate </a>over whether to watch "<a href="https://www.insider.com/barbie-oppenheimer-plan-double-feature-2023-6">Barbie</a>" <a href="https://www.insider.com/barbie-oppenheimer-plan-double-feature-2023-6">or</a> "<a href="https://www.insider.com/barbie-oppenheimer-plan-double-feature-2023-6">Oppenheimer</a>" in the cinema first.

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