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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 sovereign individual in Downing Street
In 1997 a business book predicted tech disruption, the alt-right and the rise of the super-rich. Now, in Rishi Sunak,…
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Is Sunak delivering on his migration promises?
Because his reputation relies on the perception of competence, the PM’s “stop the boats” campaign must be seen to be…
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Rishi Sunak must stop trying to appease Boris Johnson
In trying and failing to satisfy Johnson’s supporters over the Covid inquiry, the Prime Minister has only made himself look…
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If the Tories are the party for hard-working people, why are they so spectacularly lazy?
For the past 13 years, Britain has been run by people who fundamentally can’t be bothered.
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Why Rishi Sunak is wary of regulating AI
The government is taking a “pro-innovation” approach.
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The age of greedflation
How corporate profiteering is making us poorer.
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PMQs today: Starmer hits Sunak’s immigration weak spot
The message from Labour was that the government has failed to train British workers.
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Why the Tories can’t take hope from 1991
There are good reasons to think there is no overcoming Labour’s lead this time round.
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As Conservative MPs descend into civil war, even Nigel Farage says Brexit has failed
Tory infighting over immigration and other issues is a proxy debate about the true meaning of leaving the EU.
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Why Suella Braverman is unsackable
Just what does the Home Secretary need to do to get sacked? Call for non-dom status to be scrapped? Accidentally…
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Could disgruntled Tories really topple Rishi Sunak?
Boris Johnson’s allies are openly blaming No 10 for losses in the local elections – but yet another leadership race…
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Is “National Conservatism” a dead end for the Tories, or a sign of what is to come?
Rishi Sunak may be tempted by an ideology of muscular nationalism – but he would risk alienating British voters.
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Why Kemi Badenoch’s Commons showdown wasn’t as damaging as it seemed
The Business Secretary's face-down with the ERG may make her more popular with those who have grown weary of the…
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Is King Charles too left-wing for the Tories?
Boris Johnson is not the only conservative irritated by our new monarch.
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What’s wrong with the English planning system?
Keir Starmer has said a Labour government would try to overhaul our internationally unusual set-up.
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PMQs: Keir Starmer enjoys a victory parade
The Labour leader relished Rishi Sunak’s electoral woes.
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Why we need an industrial strategy
Business is deserting the UK as a place to invest.
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What could go wrong for Keir Starmer?
The “coalition of chaos” attack line won’t work but Labour still faces big questions over its plans for government.
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If the Tories fail to change, they face electoral apocalypse in the Blue Wall
The problem is not Rishi Sunak – it is his right-wing MPs and activists.
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