Britain is not a racist country; my story is a British story: PM Rishi Sunak

London, Oct 4 (PTI) Rishi Sunak addressed his first Conservative Party conference as party leader on Wednesday and used his own elevation as the country’s first Indian-origin Prime Minister as proof that the UK is not a racist country and that his skin colour was not a “big deal”.

Dubbed as the most important speech of his political career nearly a year after he took charge as Tory leader, there was a lot riding on the 43-year-old leader’s address to the governing party activists gathered in Manchester ahead of a general election expected next year.

After a warm and personal introduction by wife Akshata Murty, who praised his “honesty, integrity and strength of character”, Sunak went on to lay out his plans for what he hopes would win him the British public’s mandate at the next polls.