Private school polish and big dreams: how Rishi Sunak became a contender for PM

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% :Having made one winning political bet with Brexit, Sunak made another when May's troubled premiership finally crumbled.
49% : Yet, in other ways, his story is as establishment as it comes: private school, PPE at Oxford, the City, the Tory party.
44% :Freedom featured again when, eight months later, he explained to his local newspapers, the Yorkshire Post and the Darlington & Stockton Times, that despite his erstwhile mentors Cameron and Hague backing remain, he was plumping for Brexit.
41% : While professing himself to be a tax-cutter, Sunak raised taxes in the UK more rapidly than most other major economies, rather than see Johnson's spending plans funded by higher borrowing - an approach deeply unpopular with Tory members, if leadership polling is anything to go by.
39% :Sunak arrived in the House of Commons in 2015, as David Cameron secured a surprise majority after five years of coalition with the Lib Dems - and having reluctantly promised an in/out referendum on what came to be known as Brexit.

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