What does Rishi Sunak’s “robust pragmatism” mean for China?
There are signs that the Prime Minister is reverting to the softer position he adopted towards Beijing when he was…
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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.
Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer have capitulated to the Brexit zealots
The public now believes that the UK was wrong to leave the EU – but the Conservatives and Labour are…
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The Tories are planning to leave the housing crash for the next government
Changes to stamp duty will stimulate demand just before the next election – and cause the market to fall after…
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The Tory rebellion over onshore wind is a weather vane for Rishi Sunak’s authority
The government’s large “working” majority has become dysfunctional.
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On housing, the Tories need Labour’s help not to self-immolate
Rishi Sunak should take up Lisa Nandy’s offer of votes to get the Levelling Up Bill through.
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How long can Suella Braverman hold on as Home Secretary?
Braverman’s incompetence has been exposed once again, after she struggled to explain what legal routes lay open to migrants.
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Who’s in and who’s out at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities?
The department, now led by Michael Gove, has churned through ministers. What does it mean for the Tories’ 2019 manifesto…
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PMQs: The SNP’s defiant Ian Blackford takes centre stage
“The very idea that the United Kingdom is a voluntary union of nations is now dead and buried,” cried the…
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By backing down on planning reforms, Rishi Sunak has neglected a key group of voters: the young
The prospect of being seen as so weak as to rely on Labour support to carry legislation was clearly too…
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Conservative MPs are looking for new jobs
If they hang on until they lose the next election no one will be hiring Tories, says one lobbying industry…
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The instant political histories that nobody needs
Hasty biographies of Liz Truss and Boris Johnson by Westminster journalists show the perils of rushing to judge the recent…
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Rishi Sunak’s problem isn’t that he’s paying for healthcare
It’s that 12 years of Tory government have made it necessary.
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Cash-strapped councils “not out of the woods” after Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement
There needs to be a long-term funding plan to protect services, says the Local Government Association.
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Return of Brexit talks gives Labour an opening
The party can’t alienate Leave voters, but it can attack the government for its deal harming the economy.
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Rishi Sunak four weeks on
A special episode of the New Statesman podcast recorded live at the Cambridge Literary Festival.
Labour must make sure no one forgets the Tories’ Brexit disaster
More and more people are realising that Brexit is the greatest act of economic self-harm in living memory.
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Brexit is back. Will it help or hinder Rishi Sunak?
The proposed "Swiss-style" deal will anger some Tory backbenchers, but also show that the Prime Minister is prepared to take…
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Whitehall civil servants encouraged to get “affordable private healthcare” amid NHS crisis
Civil servants have been sent an email offering them the chance to sign up for private healthcare owing to “extended…
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“It could’ve been a lot worse”: Martin Lewis on the Autumn Statement
The money-saving expert says next year will be difficult for millions, but that his worst fears of benefits cuts have…
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What does the Autumn Statement mean for levelling up?
Avoiding the most dire predictions, the Chancellor still announced a fiscal policy that will only serve to level down.
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