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Conservative Party leadership contender Indian-origin Rishi Sunak has said that he knows he is behind UK foreign secretary Liz Truss in the British PM race but he does not think racism is to blame for that. Sunak said this in an interview with the Daily Telegraph. 

Sunak was born in the UK to a Kenya-born Hindu Punjabi father, who has ancestral roots in Gujranwala, now in Pakistan, and a Tanzania-born Hindu Punjabi mother with family roots in India.

Gujranwala-born Conservative donor Lord Ranger recently said that Britain will be seen as racist if Sunak loses the leadership election while The Times quoted Sunak loyalists at the weekend saying Sunak was a victim of a “bit of latent racism” from members. 

Sunak told Telegraph. "I just don't think that's right. I was selected as a member of Parliament in Richmond… Our members rightly put merit above everything else. I'm sure when they are considering this question, they are just figuring out who is the best person to be Prime Minister... Gender, ethnicity and everything else will have nothing to do with it."

https://m.timesofindia.com/world/uk/suna...259020.cms