Ranil Wickremesinghe: wily fox who’s been Sri Lanka’s PM six times

Profile: Despite insisting he is a ‘clean’ politician, lawyer by profession not untouched by corruption allegationsThere are few who have been stalwarts of Sri Lankan politics in the last half-century quite like the man often referred to as “the fox”.Ranil Wickremesinghe, who gained his nickname for his apparently wily ability to repeatedly resurrect his political career, has been prime minister six times since he first entered politics in 1977, though he has famously nev