british prime minister boris johnsons promotion of rishi sunaq soninlaw of infosys founder n r narayana murthy to chancellor of the exchequer finance minister on thursday places pios in two of britains great offices of state the other being priti patel who remains home secretary after johnsons first postbrexit cabinet reshufflethere are now a total of four pios in johnsons cabinet reading mp alok sharma 52 has been promoted to secretary of state for business energy and industrial strategy and exbarrister suella braverman 39 has been appointed attorney general the governments most senior law officersunak was promoted to chancellor following pakistanorigin sajid javids dramatic resignation from the post on thursday the chancellor has overall responsibility for the work of the treasury and is considered to the secondmost powerful role in governmentthe four great offices of state are that of the prime minister chancellor of the exchequer foreign secretary and home secretarysunak who was previously javids number two as chief secretary to the treasury will now move into his former bosss home at number 11 downing street he has less than a month to deliver his first budget on march 11 the pound jumped to a twomonth high against the euro as financial markets embraced the news predicting his policies and his cordial relations with no 10 would boost growththe 39yearold exbanker and selfmade millionaire who voted leave in the eu referendum has been considered a rising star in the tory party for some time and has frequently been making media appearances to talk up the case for brexitthe son of a pakistani bus driver javid quit after johnson told him he wanted to replace the treasury special advisers with people from number 10 and asked him to sack all his advisers which he refuseda conservative indian source said even when boris was mayor he put his own people around him he wants people that are 100 behind him and his vision of brexit sajid javids office has been leaking stuff and going against the government brief javid has been giving interviews to the media saying brexit will be difficult boris wants people that will go to the eu and tell them what we are going to do rishi has been much more optimistic about brexit and more methodical about assessing its impactlast august sonia khan javids media adviser was sacked by boris johnsons chief advisor dominic cummings and marched out of downing street by an armed police officer javid was at the time unaware of the dismissal javid became known as chancellor in name only and no 10 was frequently bypassing him to deal with sunak javid is now the shortestserving chancellor since 1970 who has earned the dubious distinction of having never presented a budgetborn in southampton the son of g p yashvir and pharmacist mother usha sunak spent his professional career working for goldman sachs and a hedge fund he cofounded an investment fund and used that experience to help small and entrepreneurial british companies growsunaks grandparents moved