London British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is a tech enthusiast. He likes to have his tea kept at the desired drinking temperature in a 200-euro mug. What seems like a nerd’s quirk also reveals something about Sunak’s political priorities. Earlier this year he promised Britain to turn the more than 300-year-old kingdom into an “innovation nation”.
That sounds like a hybrid of the visions of two of his predecessors: Tony Blair’s Cool Britannia and Boris Johnson’s Global Britain. According to Sunak, Great Britain should become a “beacon of science, technology and entrepreneurship” with a mathematically highly educated population. Since then, airy buzzwords like “Unicorn Kingdom” and “science and technology superpower” have been part of the standard vocabulary of British government officials.
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