Thought experiment:
So, let's see now.. Suella Braverman and Rishi Sunak are both the same age , born in 1980
Have they got anything else in common? ..
"Suella is the daughter of Uma (née Mootien-Pillay) and Christie Fernandes, both of Indian origin, who emigrated to Britain in the 1960s from Mauritius and Kenya respectively " - Wikipedia
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/if-ob…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishi_Sun…
"Rishi's mother mother, Usha Sunak, was born in Tanganyika (which later became part of Tanzania)
His father, Yashvir Sunak, was born and raised in the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya (present-day Kenya)" - Wikipedia
let's spend some time with Suella ..
"She attended the Uxendon Manor Primary School in Brent and the fee-paying Heathfield School, Pinner, on a partial scholarship"
At the time that Suella attended Heathfield School it was under the patronage of Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_…
Alice visited travelled to France, Kenya and India in her younger years
In Kenya, where Alice stayed for over a year, from about 1929–1931, she stayed in the area typical of the so-called Happy Valley set and encountered many of the personalities of said clique, including Evelyn Waugh.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Val…
One of the first British settlers in East Africa, Hugh Cholmondeley, .. is credited with helping form the Happy Valley set. He first travelled to East Africa in 1891 for lion hunting and returned yearly to resume the hunt
He is also credited for coining the term "white hunter".
History of Nairobi expertafrica.com/kenya/nairobi/…
"The first inklings that a city was going to appear here came in May 1899, when the British builders of the railway into the interior built a camp here .."
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