Is Keir Starmer falling into the Rwanda trap?
“Stop the boats” helped destroy Rishi Sunak – and now Labour risks repeating his mistake.
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.
Of course Rishi Sunak is English
In his comments on English identity, Konstantin Kisin was giving voice to a racial essentialism dangerously prominent on the right.
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Donald and Nigel’s day by the sea
Your daily dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Rishi Sunak’s angry farewell
In his last Commons performance, the former prime minister showed a new side to himself.
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PMQs review: Starmer struggles to explain winter fuel cut
The political pain for Labour is not going away – if only the leaderless Conservatives could exploit it.
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The Tory centre will not hold
The Conservative Party created Reform by embracing liberal extremism. What comes next may not be what Labour expects.
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Where next for the Tories?
The Conservative Party's first step will be confronting reality.
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Rishi Sunak makes his last stand
The Prime Minister’s final push was a greatest hits of Tory failures.
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Rishi Sunak has lost the argument on growth
Labour’s focus on economic progress has paid off.
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The Conservative catastrophe
The most successful political party in history has always reinvented itself after defeat. Can it do so again?
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The Unthinkable: how Rishi Sunak accidentally won the 2024 general election
A short story in which the PM, to his great surprise, discovers a new purpose.
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Can Rishi Sunak turn it around?
The Prime Minister has defined his talking points – but it’s too late to make an impact.
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Sunak’s shrinking campaign: from the door of No 10 to doorsteps in his constituency…
Your weekly dose of gossip from the campaign trail.
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Will Rishi Sunak lose his seat?
The Prime Minister should not be complacent.
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Starmer and Sunak try to charm the readers of the Sun
The newspaper’s election showdown produced a hostile crowd.
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The Tory betting scandal symbolises the party’s carelessness in government
Is Rishi Sunak trying to lose as many votes as possible?
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Rishi Sunak’s D-Day apology reveals the limits of saying sorry
It isn’t always the hardest word. It’s often the easiest. It can trip off the tongue far too readily.
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He shall slight them on the beaches… Sunak’s faux pas is a free pass for Cameron
Your weekly dose of gossip from the campaign trail.
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The Tories’ fate was decided long before the D-Day blunder
For the Conservatives, the race was probably already lost in January 2023.
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Not even Rishi Sunak believes he will enact the Tory manifesto
The Prime Minister’s pitch felt like the final act of 14 years of Conservative government.
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