 His appointment will have a positive impact on ethnic minority kids up and down this land. If this brown man can, then it gives hope that others can too. Now that Rishi is PM, he has already been subjected to a myriad of memes – and he can look forward to many more. We all enjoyed those relating to Liz Truss and her shortest premiership in history, and those targeting Boris during Partygate, and Dominic Cummings and Matt Hancock during the pandemic. These cleverly created online pieces of comedy make me laugh on a daily basis. They are a constant source of entertainment and light relief. Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson ( Pippa Fowles / No10 Downing Street) As soon as Rishi was appointed PM, memes flooded into my feed. One showed him arriving at No 10 on a bike with 10 o){kind=link}
Saira Khan says Rishi Sunak’s appointment as Prime Minister is symbolic and it will have a positive impact on ethnic minority kids up and down the UK. They will have bigger aspirations
Rishi Sunak is the first British Asian Hindu to become Prime Minister and only the second from an ethnic minority to hold the post since Benjamin Disraeli, who was Jewish.
As a British Asian myself, I see his appointment as symbolic â at last the bar to the highest power in the land has been lifted for people of colour.
Whether or not you like the man, or agree with his policies, having a non-white prime minister is something we should all feel proud of. Even when Barack Obama became the first Black president of the USA in 2008, I couldn’t imagine a Black or Asian person being elected to lead our nation in my lifetime.
While Rishi has not yet been elected by the public, I acknowledge I’m living at a time when the Prime Minister and I share the same skin colour and can also relate to some specific cultural experiences.