The distressing case for a 2025 general election
I’m starting to think this is not an election year after all.
ByRishi Sunak is a member of the Conservative party who became Prime Minister on 25 October 2022. 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 UK Prime Minister here.
I’m starting to think this is not an election year after all.
ByThe Conservatives are dissolving into bitter factions. Can anyone hold the party together as it nears defeat?
ByAnother Labour candidate has been suspended for anti-Semitism – is the opposition stalling?
ByOne of the main anchors of our politics has become increasingly unmoored from reality.
ByThe Prime Minister’s crude trans joke and his £1,000 Rwanda bet have exposed his lack of judgement.
ByThe Prime Minister has merely resolved problems created by his own party.
ByEven social media guru Cass Horowitz can't make up for a lack of decent political instincts.
ByThat a Conservative MP, George Freeman, has admitted he struggles to pay his mortgage makes that task even easier.
ByRishi Sunak’s continual changes of strategy have only deepened his party’s malaise.
ByThe rebels plan to wage a war of attrition but they face a significant obstacle: their own colleagues.
ByThe Conservatives were always in a far stronger position under John Major than they are under Rishi Sunak.
ByThe Prime Minister is no longer the master of his party – as Keir Starmer gleefully reminded him.
ByThe former cabinet minister is seeking to divert blame away from Liz Truss and his other ideological allies.
ByThe former Tory cabinet minister and chair of the Climate Change Committee on the government's approach to the green transition.
ByThe Prime Minister is neither satisfying populists nor governing well.
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ByThe Prime Minister knows that few of his critics genuinely want another leadership contest before the next election.
ByDespite long-standing debate over reform, MPs have no formal power over military intervention.
ByThe Labour leader relished mocking the Prime Minister’s erratic changes of strategy.
ByWhy even once-loyal Conservatives are now despairing of the Prime Minister.
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