Has Gavin Williamson’s luck finally run out?
The minister is at risk of being sacked from cabinet for the third time, after he sent expletive-laden texts to…
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.
Are we finally getting over our national poppy obsession?
Perhaps, gradually, without a head of state who served in the Second World War, Britain will start to move on.
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Revealed: the ministers who could profit from the year of political turmoil
At least ten current ministers are eligible for severance pay for their time out of government between Tory administrations.
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Despite it all, the Tories are still clinging to their reputation for economic competence
Rishi Sunak has restored a measure of public faith in the Conservatives’ handling of the economy – but for how…
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Rishi Sunak’s vision for “Global Britain” is empty
What should we make of a Brexiteer who studied stateside and tried to avoid Cop27?
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It’s no surprise that Suella Braverman is set to survive as Home Secretary
Braverman’s status reflects a new reality: a Conservative leader needs the populist right on side to last.
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Pressure mounts for Rishi Sunak as interest rates soar
The Bank of England is expected to increase rates by 0.75 per cent today –the biggest single increase for 30…
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Labour needs a true alternative to Rishi Sunak’s austerity
The moral case against spending cuts is overwhelming – and so is the economic one.
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The uncertain future of the Tory party
If Rishi Sunak loses the next general election, who will inherit the battered kingdom of British conservatism?
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PMQs: Sunak will need more than tired lines about Brexit and Corbyn to land a blow on Labour
The Prime Minister may want to reopen old wounds, but the opposition is very clearly under different management.
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No justice for civil servants in Rishi Sunak’s reshuffle
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Leader: What comes after Conservatism
The fantasy of a libertarian Brexit is over; delusions of tax cuts must now give way to a programme of…
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Letter of the week: Money, money, money
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak have more in common than they would like to admit
Both have cast themselves as the antidote to the chaotic leaderships of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.
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Could Rishi Sunak U-turn on Cop27?
The Prime Minister may now conclude that the political risks of not attending the climate conference are too great.
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In the age of anger, who will offer a vision of the good life?
Labour must remember that there is no progressive politics without optimism.
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Inside the BBC reckoning over its economic coverage
With austerity looming, a review is investigating whether journalists have been prone to bias and misleading analogies.
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The real fantasy economics is Rishi Sunak’s claim that spending cuts are unavoidable
The fiscally responsible approach is to build a strong economy through public investment and tax increases on the wealthy.
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Suella Braverman’s migrant “invasion” claim hides her lack of ideas
For all its rhetoric, the government has no real plan for managing cross-Channel immigration.
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Will Suella Braverman survive?
As new revelations emerge, Rishi Sunak is under increasing pressure to sack the Home Secretary.
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