Sunak has no right to lecture Starmer on character
The Prime Minister has been an apologist and enabler of Boris Johnson, and only resigned when it was politically convenient.
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.
Sunak’s inflation bind
In trying to reshape the political narrative over pay rises, the Prime Minister risks looking dishonest.
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Rishi Sunak’s inflation pledge backfires
Mortgage costs rocket as rising prices show little sign of abating.
Sunak’s target to halve inflation is even worse than Tories think
Voters aren’t clear what it means.
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Rishi Sunak needs to play political Bazball
To win over the country, the Prime Minister has to risk upsetting his party.
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At a patronage rate of a peer per fortnight, Liz Truss’s honours list will out-crony Johnson’s
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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PMQs: Rishi Sunak sees how it all might end
The rattled Prime Minister could not defend himself against charges of a “Tory mortgage penalty”.
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Sunak misses the chance to distance himself from Boris Johnson
The PM was one of many Conservatives who failed to turn up for the Commons vote on the Privileges Committee’s…
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Boris Johnson: the verdict
The Privileges Committee has found the former PM lied to MPs.
Higher UK bond yields do not prove that Liz Truss was right
Unlike his predecessor, Rishi Sunak has not lost the confidence of the markets.
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PMQs today: Rishi Sunak comes out fighting
The PM managed to land blows on Labour and the SNP in spite of the Tories’ political and economic woes.
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Inheritance tax is more popular than the right thinks
It’s only a question of how it is sold to the electorate.
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The humiliation of the populists
Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon have both been undone by democracy.
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The markets are having their revenge on Rishi Sunak
Investors continue to charge a “moron premium” for the UK’s economic mismanagement.
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Rishi Sunak touts UK AI safety research at London Tech Week
The Prime Minister says Anthropic, Google DeepMind and OpenAI will offer models for safety training.
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Is the government’s approach to AI hardening?
Rishi Sunak had advocated for a light-touch regulatory approach, but in a speech yesterday he was more wary of its…
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It’s time for Rishi Sunak to get ruthless with Boris Johnson
The Prime Minister should make clear there is no way back for his disgraced predecessor.
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The delusions of the Johnsonian right
The former PM’s acolytes see the world as they would like it to be – not as it is.
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The Johnson Restoration now seems an impossible dream
Could Rishi Sunak prevent the former PM from standing in a different seat before the election?
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Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson’s other enablers should never be forgiven
It was Sunak who helped the great con man of British politics secure the Tory party leadership.
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