One hundred and thirty years after the first Indian, the Liberal Dadabhai Naoroji, was elected to the UK parliament, we have our first prime minister of south Asian origin. Congratulations to Rishi Sunak who has the task of rewinding the debt built up under the disgraced Boris Johnson, without causing pain to the people who least deserve it. In particular, he and his chosen chancellor must make good his promise to restore the triple-lock on pensions.
He also has to pull the Home Office back from its authoritarian tendency, increased under each of the previous two ministers. The voting record of the Home Secretary he inherited is not great either.The nation needs to feel at ease with itself socially as well as economically. Civil rights are not incompatible with sound finance.
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