Rishi Sunak's is a historic one filled with many firsts. He's the youngest of his predecessors, the first person of colour - and he's also the richest person to ever live at 10 Downing Street.
For the first time ever, the prime minister is richer than the monarch. Mr Sunak and his wife are collectively worth £730 million or $1.3 billion, according to the Sunday Times 'Rich list', released in July. King Charles III (minus Crown assets) is worth about half of this, according to estimates by Forbes.
Mr Sunak's wealth has long been a point of attention, with some media reveling in his designer outfits.
Others ask if it puts him out of touch at a time when the UK is experiencing a cost of living crisis.
It didn't help when a two-decade-old clip of a 21-year-old Mr Sunak talking about his social circle resurfaced in July.
"I have friends who are aristocrats, I have friends who are upper class, I have friends who are working class - well, not working class," he said in the 2007 BBC documentary, laughing at the end.
"I mix and match, then I go to these kids in inner-city state schools and tell them to apply to Oxford, and talk to them about people like me."
The clip garnered criticism, with most of it focused on his extraordinary wealth and questioning how a man worth so much could represent the "ordinary Briton".
Veteran Labor political strategist Bruce Hawker, who worked on the campaign of former prime minister Kevin Rudd - one of Australia's wealthiest prime ministers - said when it comes to connecting to the country, "a lot of it comes down to the quality of the advice that they have.
"You know, the old saying, if you can't be authentic, fake it well."
In Australia, former prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull were subject to similar attention around their wealth during their leadership. Mr Rudd's millions were largely due to his wife Therese, who founded an employment services company, while Mr Turnbull's were from investments.
"I think Rudd's wealth was not really a factor in his success - or failings as a prime minister ... he had a personality that was really challenging to a lot of people," Mr Hawker told The Feed.
"Malcolm Turnbull was seen as well-off, but again his failings weren't attributable to his lack of connection to his people, it was party factions."
How did Mr Sunak become wealthy?
After graduating from Oxford University, Mr Sunak worked at the investment bank Goldman Sachs as a hedge fund manager. Working there he met his wife, Akshata Murty, who is the daughter of a tech billionaire, Narayana Murty.
Mr Murty, who co-founded Infosys, is considered the 'father' of India's IT sector. This partnership has attracted criticism after it emerged that his wife had not paid taxes in the UK on her income earned abroad, despite having lived there for nearly ten years. She later said she would pay UK tax on her worldwide income.
Rishi Sunak and Akshata Murthy attend the British Asian Trust celebration in February 2022. Credit: Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images
In a poll released on Monday, market research company Savanta ComRes asked voters to describe Mr Sunak in one word. The results, released in a word-cloud, showed one word was the most common response: "Rich."
Mr Sunak has said that he grew up in a middle-class family, with his father working as a GP and his mother a pharmacist. His education at Winchester College, one of Britain's most expensive and exclusive boarding schools, was the result of his parent's savings, he has often said.
During his campaign, he said: "I grew up working in the shop, delivering medicine. I worked as a waiter at the Indian restaurant down the street."
Asked in August how he could relate to the public given he was personally richer than the monarch Queen Elizabeth, Mr Sunak said that people shouldn't hold his wealth against him.
"I think in our country, we judge people not by their bank account, we judge them by their character and their actions. And yes, I'm really fortunate to be in the situation I'm in now, but I wasn't born like this," Mr Sunak told a leadership hustings event in Darlington, northern England.
"My parents worked really hard to provide me with all these opportunities. I'm not going to apologise for what they did for me. And in fact, that's why I want to do this job because I want to provide those opportunities for everyone else."
Speaking to The Feed, Mr Hawker said wealth in general could be an advantage when it came to funding a campaign, but it doesn't cancel out understanding.
"Just because you're wealthy shouldn't stop you from having an appreciation of how difficult it is for many people to make ends meet."
"If he can't demonstrate to the British voters that he understands their plight and that he's got policies which are going to address their problems, that's when he will fail."
After Boris Johnson's tumultuous exit which was cemented by hosting a party during COVID lockdowns he laid down, Mr Hawker said Mr Sunak has some work cut out for him.
"Johnson's left behind this perception of the Tory party that as a group, they don't really understand how difficult it is for ordinary Britons."
- with Reuters
