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Britain’s new first family: meet Rishi Sunak’s heiress wife Akshata Murthy and their two young daughters

So, there we have it: a new first family in Downing Street – again. At least Westminster’s furniture removers will be well practised by now.

The first question with a new prime minister would normally be how the family will fare in No 10 and make the place their own, but that speculation doesn’t apply in quite the same way in Sunak’s case: he, his wife, Akshata Murthy, 42, and their daughters, Krishna and Anoushka, have lived at the heart of Downing Street once already. Less than a year ago, in fact.

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