Labour demands investigation into Rishi Sunak’s comments on taking money from “deprived urban areas”
Lisa Nandy has written to Michael Gove asking for an independent investigation to establish which funding formulas were changed by…
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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.
How Keir Starmer plans to take on Rishi Sunak
The Labour leader is seeking a strategy that reflects how different the Prime Minister is from his predecessors.
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Rishi Sunak heralds the endgame for Scottish nationalism
If the SNP cannot beat the Prime Minister and his promise of restored order, it will have to change irrevocably.
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Leader: Rishi Sunak’s missing mandate
After three years of decline and drift since the 2019 election, the British people deserve their say.
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How the Tories lost the plot
The Conservative Party’s leadership crises have led to institutional collapse
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Rishi Sunak’s cabinet exposes how weak he is
The Prime Minister has chosen a combination of old faces and factional enemies for his front bench.
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Rishi Sunak’s ruthless streak should worry Labour
The new Prime Minister has shown he is willing to discard people and policies to secure his advancement.
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Rishi Sunak isn’t the UK’s Barack Obama
He doesn’t represent change, hope or success against the odds.
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Will Liz Truss try to undermine Rishi Sunak from the backbenches?
In her final speech, the outgoing prime minister showed she remains a defiant ideologue, and sounded a warning over higher…
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“The Tories betrayed us”: Britain is ready for a general election
With the cost of living rising and levelling up a forgotten dream, people around the country feel frustrated and let…
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Can Rishi Sunak escape the Tories’ death cult?
The Prime Minister has inherited the same problems that undermined the last three Conservative leaders.
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Rishi Sunak deserves not to be defined by his race – like everyone else
The indifference that most of the public feel about the first Asian prime minister is a mark of quiet progress.
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Can Rishi Sunak possibly unite the Conservative Party?
Party divisions will open once more when the meaning of renewed austerity becomes clear.
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Rishi Sunak is caught between his ideals and the voters who put his party in power
The new prime minister believes in entrepreneurship and fiscal restraint, but inherits a coalition founded on high public spending.
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Rishi Sunak isn’t a centrist technocrat – he’s a proud Thatcherite
The new prime minister represents the same free-market world-view favoured by Liz Truss.
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Rishi Sunak to become prime minister after Penny Mordaunt withdraws
The former chancellor faces huge political and economic challenges.
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Boris Johnson’s humiliation is a moment to savour
The conman has been rumbled, the snake-oil salesman has been run out of town.
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Rishi Sunak won’t be celebrating long if he becomes prime minister
The former chancellor will inherit an economy in crisis and enfeebled public services.
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How would Labour pay for its spending plans?
A new government could overhaul a tax system that is prejudiced in favour of ownership.
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Boris Johnson’s withdrawal from the leadership race leaves Rishi Sunak on the verge of power
Only Penny Mordaunt can theoretically prevent Sunak from entering No 10 this week.
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