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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.
Has Rishi Sunak already given up on the next election?
The Prime Minister has finally found his happy place: hobnobbing with entrepreneurs talking about technology.
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One year of Rishi Sunak: what has he achieved?
The Prime Minister has fought to stabilise his party, but is haunted again by allegations of Tory sleaze.
Where have all the Tory women gone?
The Conservative Party is struggling to promote female candidates for the next election.
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PMQs today: Rishi Sunak changes his line on Gaza
The Prime Minister said he supported “specific pauses” to allow humanitarian aid to reach Gaza.
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The stories Rishi Sunak cannot tell
The Prime Minister’s first year in office was defined by his silences.
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Is Rishi Sunak’s leadership in danger?
The Prime Minister’s attempted “reset” has alienated both One Nation moderates and the Tory right.
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The Tories should prepare for worse
A Conservative Party that loses all hope will be even more prone to political recklessness and indiscipline.
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Labour’s two by-election victories put the party in landslide territory
The Tories may now call an election as late as January 2025 as they bid to avoid one of the…
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Anthony Horowitz Q&A: “I admire Rishi Sunak for his resilience and work ethic”
The novelist on optimism, late-night plot anxiety, and being born 25 years too late.
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The Tories needed to win conference season – but they lost it
For the first time since 1996, this looked like a Labour opposition destined for election victory.
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Peter Mandelson was omnipresent at the Labour conference
Your dose of gossip from around Westminster and the Liverpool Convention Centre.
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Letter of the week: Travelling backwards
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Keir Starmer’s speech made the Tories look like the opposition
The hopes that Rishi Sunak’s allies had for conference season have been wholly disappointed.
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The Greens share the blame for HS2’s demise
Caroline Lucas and her allies can’t denounce the Tories for scrapping a project they spent years attacking.
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Is Suella Braverman the future of the Conservative Party?
The Home Secretary’s conference speech was well received in Manchester.
Fools, frauds and firebrands
At their party conference, the Conservatives were already moving beyond Rishi Sunak.
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Rishi Sunak’s factionalism has broken the political consensus
How will Labour respond?
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The Conservative Party is disintegrating
As the boundary between the Tories and the radical right breaks down, the party has morphed into something new.
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Rishi Sunak is demolishing the centre he once embodied
The Prime Minister has signalled that technocratic pragmatism has had its day. This is the return of politics.
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