A reckoning for Dominic Raab, and Rishi Sunak
With Adam Tolley KC’s report into bullying allegations against Raab imminent, will the Prime Minister be forced to sacrifice his…
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.
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The new Tory tribes
Rishi Sunak’s MPs are already competing to define the party’s purpose and shape its future.
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The UK’s semiconductor industry is vulnerable – but how will Rishi Sunak strengthen it?
The PM needs to secure the supply of key components to make computer chips, otherwise the UK will be left…
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Why cutting inheritance tax would be the most regressive move possible
Rishi Sunak’s plans wouldn’t help the middle classes – only the ultra-rich.
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Commons investigation suggests Sunak is continuity Boris Johnson
Despite Tory attempts to move beyond its reputation for sleaze, it keeps falling into trouble with parliamentary standards.
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Sunak’s misuse of statistics exposes the real “anti-maths mindset”
The last two years have seen high levels of governmental number-fudging.
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The Tories begin expectation management for the local elections in style
By predicting losses of 1,000 seats, Greg Hands has signalled just how much trouble his party believes it is in.
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Could Sunak be the Tories’ new Pitt the Younger?
In the latest in our series on the crisis of conservatism, the MP Danny Kruger calls for a new radicalism…
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Did Rupert Murdoch snub Liz Truss?
Unlike other Tory PMs, she never got a chance to meet the media magnate.
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How Labour lost the moral high ground
Attack ads are fundamental to politics. But the smear campaign against Rishi Sunak is a strategic and moral error.
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Labour’s Sunak adverts show Keir Starmer has finally decided to gamble
The Labour leader’s more aggressive advisers have won but the party has now invited counterattacks.
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Australian Labor would never have run Labour’s Sunak attack adverts
Anthony Albanese won by recognising that voters were tired of lazy, divisive and dishonest politics.
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Charles is proving a political king – and we should be grateful
The King is trying to repair the damage that successive Tory governments have done to the UK’s global standing and…
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Rishi Sunak is going to have a Donald Trump problem
A clash between the US and UK elections is a political nightmare.
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This government doesn’t have a clue about grooming gangs
It’s raising expectations about a system that will end up failing young girls.
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Is the government’s grooming task force about fighting crime or a culture war?
Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman’s focus on race is curious, and at odds with the evidence on child sex abuse.
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Who could secure the Good Friday Agreement today?
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak lack the idealism and vision that enabled the Northern Ireland peace deal 25 years ago.
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The “new elite” isn’t the elite – it isn’t even new
The wealthy, right-wing politicians still hold all the power – not those that work in bourgeois institutions with liberal-left views.
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The local elections will be Rishi Sunak’s first electoral test
Meanwhile, Labour is learning that the tricky thing about a poll lead is that you have to maintain it.
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