RICHMOND, England — Rishi Sunak has a habit of making history. He’s United Kingdom’s first British-Indian prime minister, its first Hindu leader, and at 42 he was the youngest to take the job in over 200 years. He’s also probably the richest person to govern from No. 10 Downing St. Now 44, Sunak is about to mark new and less flattering records at the U.K. general election on Thursday.
But instead of going directly into politics, Sunak joined Goldman Sachs as an analyst but less than 10 years later, plunged into the rowdy world of politics. At the 2015 general election, he was selected to run in the safe Conservative seat of Richmond, one of the largest and most rural constituencies in Britain, with its rolling hills and unspoiled landscapes, now called Richmond and Northallerton.