The UK went into its Covid lockdown on March 23, 2020, and four days later its new chancellor of the exchequer, Rishi Sunak, tweeted his work-from-home photo with the hashtag #StayHomeSaveLives.
It was a homely pic. Sunak, a father of two, tapping away on an ergonomic keyboard while staring at dual screens (a former investment banker, he’s said to think in Excel) in his study after 9.30 pm. For full domestic effect Sunak wore a grey hoodie rather than one of his immaculate suits.
But if the ensemble was calculated to tell the public the country’s finances were in safe, stable, responsible, diligent hands, it had an unforeseen effect. The hashtag #DishyRishi took off. Now, it wasn’t a new hashtag, but until then it had been reserved for the character Rishi Sharma who once did a cringey dance in the British TV show Emmerdale.
Applied to Sunak, DishyRishi meant only one thing – sexy.
The British press latched on to the craze quickly. A week after Sunak’s tweet, Flora Gill wrote an article about him in GQ under the headline: “I fancy Rishi Sunak. And after reading this, you probably will too.”
It started with all the confessional zeal of a schoolgirl in her first crush. “...one dark, emoji-filled evening on WhatsApp, emboldened by the lack of a face-to-face meeting, I opened up to my friends about my shameful new feelings: a deep desire for Rishi Sunak…” As if to implicate everyone else, Gill added: “Rishi is the man we’d all self-isolate with.”
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