How universal public services can end the cost-of-living crisis
Government provision of basic human needs, like healthcare and housing, can fight price shocks and save the planet.
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.
Rishi Sunak will pay a price for not sacking Nadhim Zahawi
By waiting until the investigation into the Tory chairman is complete, Sunak has appeared passive and weak.
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Why Rishi Sunak’s indecision over Nadhim Zahawi makes him look weak
The public prefers the Prime Minister to his party, but he now risks being tarnished by the Conservatives’ brand.
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PMQs: Rishi Sunak is on a losing streak
Keir Starmer delivered a brutal pay-off line: “Is he starting to wonder if this job is just too big for…
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Once you’ve seen the true extent of Tory sleaze, it’s impossible to unsee it
How can Nadhim Zahawi have made a “careless and not deliberate” error that left him with a tax bill more…
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Sunak is finding Tory MPs ungovernable
The party has forced its latest victim of a prime minister into a succession of U-turns.
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Britain’s democratic rot has continued under Rishi Sunak
The lies and autocratic legislation that defined Boris Johnson’s premiership have endured.
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Rishi Sunak must sack Nadhim Zahawi to retain any credibility
The Prime Minister’s promise of “integrity, professionalism and accountability” has been shattered.
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Levelling-up fund is poor compensation for the ravages of austerity
The latest £2bn round of levelling-up funding is a drop in the ocean compared with the fall in local authority…
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Rishi Sunak will further alienate his MPs with his comments about taxation “idiots”
With the Prime Minister refusing to reduce the tax burden and levelling up failing to deliver, Conservatives in both Red…
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Rishi Sunak faces a new Tory revolt over levelling up favouritism
As the south wins out over the north, the government can’t pretend the money exists to address regional inequalities.
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PMQs: Keir Starmer leaves Rishi Sunak squirming over the NHS catastrophe
The Labour leader showed that he intends to exploit the state of the health service at every other opportunity.
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Rishi Sunak’s biggest threat from the right isn’t Boris Johnson – it’s Reform UK
With rising support in the polls, Richard Tice’s party could become the future of populist politics in Britain.
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How Rishi Sunak is getting away with the NHS crisis
When 500 citizens are needlessly dying a week, you might reasonably think the situation demands immediate intervention.
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The pressure on Sunak to curb the spread of online misogyny is increasing
Labour shadow minister says it is “astonishing” that the Prime Minister is still failing to take this issue seriously.
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Will the gender reform battle boost support for Scottish independence?
Westminster’s veto has turned a debate over policy into one over Scotland’s power to govern itself.
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Is Boris Johnson coming back?
It would be a bold move to bet against another period of chaos – and the former PM emerging as…
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Rishi Sunak has every right to block Scotland’s gender bill
Ignore the hysteria: this is a matter of nationalist incompetence, not unionist conspiracy.
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Will Rishi Sunak finally stand up to the Brexit fanatics?
Whether or not the Prime Minister defies his backbenchers over the Northern Ireland protocol will be a defining test.
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Nadhim Zahawi’s tax affairs undermine Rishi Sunak’s call for Conservative “accountability”
If they want to prove their integrity, ministers should make their tax returns public as a matter of course.
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