- Although he announced his decision to run for prime minister of the United Kingdom on 8 July 2022, the day after Boris Johnson's resignation, he had already registered the internet domain for his leadership bid's website on 23 December 2021.
- In April 2022, he became the first Chancellor of the Exchequer in British history to be criminally sanctioned while in office.
- After comic Frankie Boyle called him "a guy whose greatest desire in life is to be pegged by Thatcher's ghost" on Episode #26.2 (2022), eleven viewers complained.
- He is the first non-white person to serve as prime minister of the United Kingdom, being of Punjabi Indian descent. He is also the first non-Christian PM, being Hindu.
- Following the resignation of Liz Truss as prime minister of the United Kingdom after only 45 days in office, Sunak launched a second bid for the leadership of the Conservative Party and won unopposed on October 24, making him prime minister-designate.
- Lost the September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election to Liz Truss, 57-43%.
- He is the first prime minister to be appointed by King Charles III -- not just of the UK, but of all 15 realms where Charles is head of state.
- At 42, he is the youngest UK prime minister since Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (served 1812-1827).
- Graduated from University of Oxford, and later earned an MBA from Stanford University.
- He is estimated to be the wealthiest person to ever serve as UK prime minister, with an estimated net worth of £730 million ($837 million) with his wife Akshata Murty as of October 2022.
- The first Prime Minister since Clement Attlee not to have Queen Elizabeth II as their monarch.
- On 15 November 2023, Suella Braverman, his former Home Secretary, responded to Sunak firing her with a public letter calling him "uncertain, weak, and lacking in the qualities of leadership that this country needs".
- The 38-year age gap between him and US President Joe Biden is the widest between a sitting British Prime Minister and a sitting US President ever in history.
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