Energy crisis: what the UK could learn from Germany
While Berlin is investing heavily to boost energy efficiency and cut usage, the British government is in denial.
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.
What Tory leadership candidate would dare make David Cameron’s pitch today?
Revisiting the former prime minister’s original message in 2005 shows how much the Tories have changed for the worse.
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Rishi Sunak’s rightwards dash has destroyed what reputation he had left
The former chancellor could have fought an honourable campaign. Instead he’s led an illiberal arms race.
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Truss and Sunak’s lurch to the right jeopardises 2019 coalition
The voters that gave the Tories their majority want levelling up, not tax cuts.
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Sunak’s tax cut pledge is a desperate attempt to keep up with Liz Truss
The more the former chancellor moves into Truss’s space on tax cuts, the more credibility he loses.
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Who are the mystery Conservative members taking back control?
Until recently, not even the Tory party knew who its members were. Now they’re picking the next prime minister. Again.
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Hard work won’t be enough to pay your energy bill
The UK government must introduce a proper windfall tax and help the poorest with the soaring cost of energy.
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The best solution to the energy crisis is to literally hand out money
Why are we more scared of unfair gains than unfair losses?
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Sunak and Truss are wrong, Tory members want climate action
The leadership candidates have let their voters down by failing to take global warming seriously.
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When will we be able to talk about Brexit again?
The cost of leaving the EU is becoming ever clearer but the Conservatives and Labour have taken a vow of…
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Liz Truss is gaining momentum in the Tory leadership race
The Defence Secretary has endorsed Truss's campaign in a major coup – but Rishi Sunak could fight back this weekend…
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The murky case of the tax expert, the Chancellor and his lawyers
The lawyer Dan Neidle reflects on how Nadhim Zahawi’s solicitors sought to shut down his inquiries.
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Rishi Sunak’s green belt pandering shows he is no Margaret Thatcher
Unlike the Iron Lady, Conservative politicians of today aren’t ready to ask the hard questions about the UK’s structural problems.
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What Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are getting wrong about Brexit
Editor's Note: In their race to the right, the Conservative leadership candidates are misreading the times.
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The birth of a new political era
Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak are not the choice this country deserves after three years of Boris Johnson. Britain needs…
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If the Tory leadership race produces an Asian prime minister, we might have something to celebrate
In the troubled passage towards living together in a multicultural democracy, Rishi Sunak’s election would be a moment to cherish.
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Rishi Sunak’s tax cut U-turn means he knows he is losing
The former chancellor’s pledge to cut VAT on energy bills shows he is dancing to Liz Truss’s tune.
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Rishi Sunak reinvents himself as a China hawk
The former chancellor prioritised trade when he was in office, but now he needs to counter Liz Truss’s buccaneering persona.
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Do we think Liz Truss is silly because we’re sexist?
Boris Johnson was never ridiculed in quite the same way.
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Tory leadership debate: Rishi Sunak fails to achieve breakthrough against Liz Truss
Tonight’s exchanges leave the tax-cutting Foreign Secretary as the clear front-runner to become prime minister.
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