Rishi Sunak strolls alongside sun-soaked California pier along with his household in vacation pictures

Rishi Sunak has been pictured on his summer season vacation as his household take pleasure in a “really special” journey to California.

The prime minister, his spouse Akshata Murty, and two younger daughters Krishna and Anoushka beamed whereas on the busy Santa Monica Pier the place they performed funfair video games.

The household will even head to Disneyland throughout their first “proper” household summer season vacation in a couple of years, in accordance with Mr Sunak.

He mentioned his daughters had been “very excited” about going to the theme park earlier than joking they worry they are going to spend an excessive amount of time on the Star Wars expertise as a result of he’s a fan.

Wearing informal clothes, Mr Sunak mentioned California is a significant place for the household as it’s the place he met his spouse, and the place he frolicked while learning at Stanford University.

In his absence, Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden is taking up obligations, with Mr Sunak receiving day by day updates from his non-public workplace.

Prime ministerial vacation photograph shoots are an extended custom, with latest examples together with David Cameron being pictured at a Portuguese fish market, and Theresa May mountaineering in Switzerland.

It comes after 5 Greenpeace activists had been arrested after climbing onto the roof of the Sunak household manor home in North Yorkshire with an indication that learn “no new oil”.

The local weather activist group had been protesting the prime minister’s “backing for a major expansion of North Sea oil and gas drilling” – the place it should grant 100 new licences off the coast of Scotland.