Rishi Sunak’s lack of leadership on nature is failing businesses
The UK’s stop-start approach to the climate and biodiversity crises makes it hard for industry to act.
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.
Why Rishi Sunak should be talking about condoms
Free contraception will be available to all under-25s in French pharmacies. British politicians should take note.
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Rishi Sunak is gambling on Christmas disruption turning voters against the strikes
The Prime Minister's soothing tone of reconciliation has done nothing to change the fundamental problems at play
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Whatever happened to the Conservatives’ “war on cancer”?
It is not clear that improving cancer survival rates is still a priority for this government.
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Can anyone save the Tory party?
Many Conservative MPs seem either not to have noticed or not to care about the impending doom facing the party.
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Michael Gove’s coal mine decision is a climate disaster – and it’s only the beginning
Britain’s first new deep mine in 30 years has perpetuated net zero myths that could lead to more fossil fuel…
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PMQs: Keir Starmer’s strategy is working
In today’s Conservative Party, MPs feel free to pick and choose which government policies to support. That makes Rishi Sunak…
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Leader: The year of living dangerously
In a new era of permanent crisis, the past 12 months demonstrated the power of leadership – for good and…
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Even in a season of goodwill, I look back in anger at the Tory mess that was 2022
It will take us a long time – far more than a single parliamentary term – to recover.
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“What Rishi Sunak is doing is lunacy”: the City’s favourite strategist on the economy’s hidden dangers
Albert Edwards warns that the government’s austerity has set the economy on a path to collapse.
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Populism is in decline in the West but the UK is still paying the price
The Brexit vote made what could have been a passing fashion a near-permanent feature of our politics.
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Labour’s landslide in Chester shows voters have an appetite for change
The party’s impressive by-election result suggests a risk-averse strategy from Keir Starmer now would be a mistake.
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By protecting private schools, Rishi Sunak is chasing voters who don’t exist
As an Old Wykehamist, the Prime Minister may think he knows the sorts of parents whose children go to private…
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Rishi Sunak braces for electoral defeat in the Chester by-election
If the Tory vote in the constituency collapses today, it will be a sharp reminder of the kind of voters…
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PMQs: Rishi Sunak on the ropes over tax breaks for private schools
Keir Starmer forced the Prime Minister to defend the charitable status of schools such as Winchester College, which charges £45,000…
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How long can Rishi Sunak hold on to No 10?
Divided parties don’t win elections – and, as Sunak is discovering, they cannot effectively govern either.
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Keir Starmer’s mildly authoritarian streak chimes perfectly with these troubled times
Unlike the right, the left is comfortable using state power – and government intervention is exactly what Britain needs.
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How Johnson, Truss and the Tory rebels learned to love onshore wind
The winds of change are blowing in favour of this renewable energy source.
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Chinese-owned care home in Rishi Sunak’s constituency is one of 64 in Britain
The Prime Minister is trying to talk tough on UK-China relations, while Brits are paying thousands of pounds in care…
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Rishi Sunak needs more than a good tone to beat Labour
The government has made the right noises on Europe and strikes, but that won’t hide it’s lack of substance for…
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