Rishi Sunak’s speech is a big gamble for him and the Conservatives
The Chancellor is betting that a return to the old approach of austerity won’t end up with the same old…
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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.
Conservative MPs have a familiar worry about the Universal Credit cut
As welfare is cut again, Tory MPs are haunted by the consequences of George Osborne’s 2015 Budget.
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Rishi Sunak and the foreign aid rebels
Anoosh Chakelian, Stephen Bush and Ailbhe Rea look at the Conservative rebellion over foreign aid budget cuts.
Can the UK withstand Rishi Sunak’s budget cuts?
Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea review the 2021 budget announcement on the New Statesman podcast.
Will Rishi Sunak raise taxes in the 2021 Budget?
Reports of corporation tax hikes have sparked a row on both sides of the Commons.