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> His economist father and barrister mother gave him a traditional Ashanti first name, meaning "born on Sunday", when he was actually born on a Monday. He told the BBC's Political Thinking with Nick Robinson podcast his parents stayed silent on the matter when he jokingly pulled them up on it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62796213 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p095j38y

Thanks for that! Apparently he doesn’t know either.

Also what an awkward introduction on that podcast, holy hell!

Heh - Perhaps he was born in the US timezone where it was a Sunday evening, but in his home country, Ghana, it was a Monday.

He was born in the UK, which shares the same time zone with Ghana. The local time would have differed by only one hour because of daylight saving time being observed in the UK but not in Ghana.

Giving birth can take quite a while so perhaps it started on Sunday evening and finished on Monday morning?

Given what he did to the British economy in the shortest tenure of any chancellor, it's easy to believe he doesn't know what day it is.