Prada shoes, designer suits: Rishi Sunak’s stealth-wealth wardrobe a contrast to that of his predecessors Liz Truss and Boris Johnson

Liz Truss wore high street brand earrings. Boris Johnson’s suits were always crumpled. The new British prime minister’s style stands in stark contrast to theirs

Sunak has a taste for Prada shoes and for suits that cost thousands of dollars, but also tries to appear in touch with ‘the people’ by dressing semi-casual

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Rishi Sunak, casually dressed in a Lacoste polo shirt and jeans, with his wife, Akshata Murty, at an event in his constituency in Yorkshire, England. The British prime minister has a taste for expensive shoes and designer suits. Photo: Rishi Sunak Facebook

Published: 11:15am, 31 Oct 2022

According to The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, a late-night talk show in the US, there is a major backlash under way in Britain over the appointment of the country’s first Asian Prime Minister.

This is surely a case of Americans stamping their own culture wars on the rest of the world – because the truth is that the vast majority of Britons are proud that the son of immigrants has risen to the highest office in the land.

What is far more controversial is the fact that Rishi Sunak is richer than King Charles. Well, his wife is anyway.

While he was at Stanford University in the United States, Sunak met Akshata Murty, the daughter of Indian billionaire N. R. Narayana Murthy, who is the founder of tech company Infosys.

Murty and Sunak at the Frieze Art Fair 2022 preview in London in October. Photo: Getty Images

Her shares in her father’s business have made the couple two of the richest people in Britain, with a combined fortune of £730 million (US$840 million).

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