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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.
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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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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Rishi Sunak shows why he can’t be a “change candidate”
The Prime Minister spoke for himself rather than for voters.
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The new Conservative Party is being born
Tory conference is not a wake, as many claim. It is a christening.
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Suella Braverman’s luxury hostilities
The Home Secretary will never solve the problems she so feverishly describes.
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Nigel Farage is the real star of the Tory conference
The former Ukip leader may be right to think the Conservatives will follow where he leads.
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Tory conference incoherence is holding the party back
Rishi Sunak and the Conservatives are no longer on the same page.
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Where does Labour stand on HS2?
Rishi Sunak’s intention to shelve the high-speed link to Manchester poses dilemmas for the opposition as well as the Conservatives.
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The farce of scrapping the Manchester leg of HS2
Only this government would announce a policy such as this in Manchester, and still lay claim to levelling up.
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Rishi Sunak can’t campaign
Tory HQ is planning a presidential push around a man who the public like less the more they see of…
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Why is Rishi Sunak so isolated?
At Conservative Party conference, the Prime Minister is lost between the factions.
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The national treasure recession
Britain no longer has any heroes left.
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