Rishi Sunak is Britain’s new chancellor of the exchequer

ASIDE FROM their families’ South Asian origins, Sajid Javid, the outgoing chancellor of the exchequer, and Rishi Sunak, the incoming one, have little in common. Mr Javid’s father came to Britain with £1 in his pocket and made his living as a bus driver. Mr Sunak’s father was a doctor, and he went to Winchester College, one of the country’s most exclusive schools, and subsequently to Oxford University. More importantly, neither Boris Johnson nor his chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, had much time for Mr Javid, and both have a great deal of respect for Mr Sunak.