Tory MPs are losing patience with Rishi Sunak
The Prime Minister’s decision to rule out a May election has given rebels more time to channel their despair into…
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.
Rishi Sunak is already irrelevant
The Conservatives are demoralised. Among Tory MPs, all eyes are on their party’s future.
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PMQs review: Rishi Sunak’s unforced errors are destroying Tories’ faith
Keir Starmer pins the Prime Minister into hopeless contortions over Conservative scandals.
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Rishi Sunak is not very good at politics
The Prime Minister’s gaffes and poor media management are weakening his already precarious position.
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Rishi Sunak’s paranoid talk of “extremists” is dangerous for us all
Fringe politicians from George Galloway to the hard right are trying make Islamism a big election issue. For decency and…
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Rishi Sunak has been trapped by the Tory realignment
The Prime Minister has discovered that once you are on the path to populism, it is hard to turn back.
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PMQs review: the Tories can’t escape the Post Office scandal
Rishi Sunak refuses to back Kemi Badenoch in her public spat with the former Post Office head.
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The distressing case for a 2025 general election
I’m starting to think this is not an election year after all.
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The Tory party’s theatre of hate
The Conservatives are dissolving into bitter factions. Can anyone hold the party together as it nears defeat?
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What Labour’s by-election woes mean for Sunak
Another Labour candidate has been suspended for anti-Semitism – is the opposition stalling?
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The Tory right’s radicalisation should trouble us all
One of the main anchors of our politics has become increasingly unmoored from reality.
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PMQs review: Rishi Sunak’s year keeps getting worse
The Prime Minister’s crude trans joke and his £1,000 Rwanda bet have exposed his lack of judgement.
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Rishi Sunak’s Northern Ireland victory rings hollow
The Prime Minister has merely resolved problems created by his own party.
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Glossy PR created Brand Rishi but it won’t save him now
Even social media guru Cass Horowitz can't make up for a lack of decent political instincts.
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PMQs review: Keir Starmer pins the ailing economy on the Tories
That a Conservative MP, George Freeman, has admitted he struggles to pay his mortgage makes that task even easier.
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A Tory reckoning
Rishi Sunak’s continual changes of strategy have only deepened his party’s malaise.
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Will the plot against Rishi Sunak succeed?
The rebels plan to wage a war of attrition but they face a significant obstacle: their own colleagues.
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The 2024 election looks nothing like 1992
The Conservatives were always in a far stronger position under John Major than they are under Rishi Sunak.
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PMQs review: Rishi Sunak has lost control
The Prime Minister is no longer the master of his party – as Keir Starmer gleefully reminded him.
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Simon Clarke is scapegoating Rishi Sunak for the coming Tory defeat
The former cabinet minister is seeking to divert blame away from Liz Truss and his other ideological allies.
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