Sunak’s fortune, India’s right-wing media and the Leicester clashes
Rishi Sunak’s connections with right-wing Hindu nationalists are not as glaring as, for instance, those of Priti Patel or Harrow East MP Bob Blackman. Yet his marriage has given him substantial links not only into India’s capitalist class, and its political establishment, but also its Hindu nationalist political networks. These connections are relevant to the upsurge of Hindu nationalist activism in the UK, including recent events in Leicester. The Sunak-Murty family fortune Sunak’s household wealth, making him the first UK prime minister richer than its monarch, is of course a matter of alarm...