The Tories just want to watch the world burn
Rishi Sunak is putting the Conservatives’ narrow partisan interests ahead of the common good on climate change.
ByRishi Sunak
Rishi Sunak is a member of the Conservative Party who was prime minister between October 2022 and July 2024. Sunak has been MP for Richmond since 2015 and before becoming PM he served as chancellor of the Exchequer from 13 February 2020 to 5 July 2022. Thanks to a Fulbright scholarship, he studied philosophy, politics and economics at Lincoln College, Oxford, and did an MBA at Stanford University. Find all our latest news, comment and analysis of the former prime minister here.
The by-elections were a warning to Sunak – and Starmer
Uxbridge shows that Labour has not yet sealed the deal with the public.
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PMQs: Keir Starmer talks tough on spending
The Labour leader co-opted the Tories’ “magic money tree” line of attack.
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Inside the assassination bureau
The 1922 Committee is adept at removing prime ministers. How long before its head prefect pays Rishi Sunak a visit?
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Why by-election defeats would benefit Sunak
The PM’s Conservative rivals won’t want to lead a doomed party.
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Should Rishi Sunak be a diplomat?
International relations is one of the few arenas in which the Prime Minister can say he’s been moderately successful.
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What is the point of Rishi Sunak?
This zombie government is clinging to power simply for its own sake.
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Has Rishi Sunak finally learned that life is unfair?
The Prime Minister’s clocked that hard work isn’t everything. But why is he telling us?
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Can the NHS workforce plan rescue the health service?
Questions of politics and economics will influence the success or failure of Britain’s “national religion”.
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Rishi Sunak should take on the immigration fantasists
We need to end the cycle of unrealistic promises followed by cries of betrayal.
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PMQs: Sunak was missing, but was hardly missed
The Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden did his best to copy the PM’s “blame Labour” routine.
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Sunak lowers expectations for global AI regulation
The Prime Minister told the Liaison Committee that an international summit the UK is to host in the autumn is…
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Approving Rosebank would sink Sunak’s green credentials
Criticism of the government’s approach to climate change is growing.
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The New Conservatives will damage Rishi Sunak
The Prime Minister’s own MPs are implicitly criticising his migration policy and distracting from his agenda.
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Why Rishi Sunak needs to sack Suella Braverman
The Home Secretary’s toxic populism is doing the Prime Minister more harm than good.
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Sunak’s clash with Zac Goldsmith shows how badly he’s played his partygate hand
The Tory peer, a steadfast ally of Boris Johnson, has been allowed to exit on his own terms.
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Brexit won’t define the next election – but the one after that is a different story
Another five years of “Bregret” could push Labour in a much more pro-European direction.
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PMQs: Sunak’s housing policies are built on sand
By attacking the Conservatives on homeownership and house-building, Starmer is turning a traditional Tory strength into a weakness.
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Keir Starmer: my mortgage is up too, and Rishi Sunak doesn’t get it
The Labour leader told the New Statesman’s Politics Live that the Prime Minister had never been in the position of…
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The NHS’s decline will have political consequences
People still value the service but they don’t think it’s well run.
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