Narayana Murthy's son-in-law Rishi Sunak is new UK chancellor of exchequer

Rishi Sunak, who went to Oxford and Stanford, became MP just five years ago

When former British foreign secretary William Hague vacated his safe Conservative party seat in Richmond in the countryside of Yorkshire, a surprise choice to step into his shoes was an Indian-origin candidate, Rishi Sunak.

This was five years ago. While he has been thrice elected from the constituency to the House of Commons, because of two mid-term elections, his rise from the back benches to the office of the chancellor of the exchequer (finance minister) in merely half a decade is, to say the least, meteoric.

Sunak’s father was a doctor in the National Health Service and his mother an owner of