What Labour’s by-election woes mean for Sunak
Another Labour candidate has been suspended for anti-Semitism – is the opposition stalling?
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.
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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Lord Deben: “Sunak will not reach net zero unless he changes policy”
The former Tory cabinet minister and chair of the Climate Change Committee on the government’s approach to the green transition.
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Rishi Sunak is pleasing no one on immigration
The Prime Minister is neither satisfying populists nor governing well.
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Tories pray for electoral salvation. Will St Boris intercede?
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Rishi Sunak can afford to face down Tory rebels over the Rwanda bill
The Prime Minister knows that few of his critics genuinely want another leadership contest before the next election.
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Why Rishi Sunak was able to bypass parliament on strikes in Yemen
Despite long-standing debate over reform, MPs have no formal power over military intervention.
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PMQs review: Keir Starmer turns the “flip-flop” charge back on Rishi Sunak
The Labour leader relished mocking the Prime Minister’s erratic changes of strategy.
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Rishi Sunak is digging his own grave
Why even once-loyal Conservatives are now despairing of the Prime Minister.
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“In the end, we’ll snap”: Inside the One Nation Tory fightback
Damian Green, who chairs the group of 106 Conservative moderates, reveals Rishi Sunak promised to go “no further on Rwanda”.
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The problem with Rishi Sunak’s new election strategy
To many voters, “going back to square one” will sound appealing given the state of the country.
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