Less than half the population are Christian for the first time

W hen Rishi Sunak became prime minister, his accession was widely welcomed across the political spectrum, as the first British Asian to secure the top job in politics, and only the second from a minority background after Benjamin Disraeli in the nineteenth century. Sunak's sudden rise was unusual, insofar as he'd lost a leadership race to Liz Truss barely hours earlier. But he didn't exactly come from nowhere, having been a highly visible chancellor during the pandemic. Still, at a time when Britain is sometimes perceived abroad as an only slightly modernised version of Downton Abbey, prime minister Sunak forced…