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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.
Can Rishi Sunak survive the wrath of the right?
This year will be one in which Boris Johnson and Liz Truss’s supporters exact revenge upon the Prime Minister.
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How Rishi Sunak can solve parliament’s Pestminster problem
Give people a fright and you’ll be surprised how quickly things can change.
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In this time of conflict, I recall my late mother’s Christian wisdom and kindness
Although we often disagreed about politics, she taught me that in this age of frenzy it’s safer to be slow…
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Leader: How to reverse British decline
Rather than indulging in post-imperial fantasies, Britain should learn from those mid-sized economies that are both richer and more equal…
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Rishi Sunak’s maths to 18 plan doesn’t add up
The policy doesn’t reflect voters’ priorities and there aren’t enough teachers to deliver it.
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Rishi Sunak can’t get away with neglecting childcare
The sector’s woes are more than an education issue, so the Prime Minister would be wise to heed his MPs’…
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New year heralds no resolution for Rishi Sunak
The Prime Minister projects stability, but his plans for levelling up and childcare could reopen his party’s wounds.
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Why the Tories I know are so disillusioned
The Conservative Party now has to win over the voters that it used to take for granted.
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Rishi Sunak is taking a big risk by playing it so safe
The Prime Minister shouldn’t throw so much red meat to his party’s dissenting factions. It will only embolden them.
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Is Suella Braverman being set up to fail?
Rishi Sunak takes the credit for immigration reform, while the Home Secretary gets the blame for her department’s failings.
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Rishi Sunak could face more NHS strikes next year
Junior doctors are poised to join nurses and ambulance workers in back-to-back strikes, and public support remains high.
Rishi Sunak, like Keir Starmer, sees the strength in being boring
The Prime Minister addressed select committee chairs as though reading from a No10 press release.
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Who will blink first in the NHS strikes?
Rishi Sunak claims he is ready to hold out for months, but that could leave him badly isolated.
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The New Year will only bring more Tory divisions for Rishi Sunak
The Prime Minister told MPs to “unite or die” but his time in No 10 has been marked by repeated…
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Is Rishi Sunak as hawkish on China as he made out?
The government may have missed a geopolitical trick by allowing Beijing to recall diplomats wanted for questioning by British police.
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Will the Tories ever resolve their internal battle on immigration?
However far Rishi Sunak goes to placate the right of his party, there will always be calls for him to…
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PMQs: Sunak cornered on all sides over NHS strikes
Keir Starmer accused the PM of having “curled up in a ball and gone into hibernation” as a winter crisis…
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“The Tories have given up”: Tyne mayor Jamie Driscoll on revitalising the north-east
One of Labour’s “last Corbynistas in power” believes further devolution and left-wing ideas could revolutionise regionalism in the UK.
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Rishi Sunak has been left looking complacent on strikes
Even if the public loses patience with the strikers, that doesn’t mean they’ll sympathise with the government.
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