The actors Riz Ahmed and Dev Patel are the biggest climbers on the new list of the most influential Asian people in Britain, which is topped by Sadiq Khan for a second successive year after he took on Donald Trump and Uber.
Solanki said there was no doubt about Khan topping the list after a year in which he publicly stood up to Donald Trump, the US president.
Ahmed, who last month won an Emmy award for his performance in the HBO drama The Night Of, is the highest non-politician on the list at fourth place.
“Mostly, our [Asian] parents and other generations wouldn’t have spoken to us about working as a journalist or intelligence officer.