london rishi sunak ran for britains top job and lost then he got another shot and the chance to say i told you sothe former uk treasury chief was runnerup to liz truss in the contest to replace the scandalplagued boris johnson as conservative party leader and prime minister but truss quit after a turbulent 45day term and johnson has abandoned a comeback attempt and sunak won the race monday to finally assume the office he missed out on less than two months agovictory in the conservative leadership contest is vindication for sunak who warned in the last campaign that truss taxcutting economic plans were reckless and would cause havoc and so they didtruss resigned last week after her package of tax cuts spooked financial markets hammered the value of the pound and obliterated her authoritysunak will be britains first leader of color and the first hindu to take the top job at 42 hell also be the youngest prime minister in more than 200 years a political prodigy whose youthful looks sharp suits and smooth confident manner saw him dubbed dishy rishi by the british mediato win sunak still must overcome allegations by opponents that he was a turncoat for quitting johnsons government as it foundered amid ethics scandals the nearsimultaneous resignations of sunak and health secretary sajid javid on july 5 set off a chain reaction within 48 hours some 50 members of the government had quit and johnson was forced to step downsunak painted it as a matter of principle saying he wanted to repair the breakdown of trust in politics he also accused truss of offering fairy tales by promising immediate tax cuts when he felt curbing soaring inflation was a bigger priorityi would rather lose having fought for the things that i passionately believe are right for our country and being true to my values than win on a false promise sunak said in a bbc interviewsunak was born in 1980 in southampton on englands south coast to parents of indian descent who were both born in east africa he grew up in a middleclass family his father a family doctor and his mother a pharmacist and says he inherited their hardworking ethosi grew up working in the shop delivering medicines he said during the campaign i worked as a waiter at the indian restaurant down the streethe has described how his parents saved to send him to winchester college one of britains most expensive and exclusive boarding schoolsthere he mingled with the elite rivals recently dug up a clip from a 2001 television documentary about the class system in which the 21yearold sunak said he had friends who are aristocrats i have friends who are upper class i have friends who are you know working class well not working classafter high school sunak studied politics philosophy and economics at oxford university the degree of choice for future prime ministers then got an mba at stanford universityhe worked for the investment