The war in Ukraine will go on for years – and so will its consequences for Britain
We need to change our thinking: this may become an unresolved global conflict of a kind we haven’t seen before.
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 hapless Mr Sunak
What the UK requires is a prime minister who can lead and inspire; what it has is a vacuous management…
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How the Tories lost the Rod Stewart generation
The musician’s on-air rant has given voters permission to acknowledge all the ways the state is falling apart around them.
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Boris Johnson could still scupper Sunak’s Northern Ireland deal
The Prime Minister’s weakness against Tory backbenchers remains the biggest obstacle to his reported agreement with the EU on post-Brexit…
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Conservatives are losing confidence in Rishi Sunak
The number of MPs who ask whether the Prime Minister is simply too inexperienced for these grim times is growing.
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Why do people keep calling Rishi Sunak a “safe pair of hands”?
The stock conservative metaphor calls to mind the right sort of chaps doing the right sorts of things, no matter…
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What is the point of Rishi Sunak?
The Prime Minister is a ditherer without purpose.
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Nadhim Zahawi’s sacking leaves Rishi Sunak with questions to answer
How much did the Prime Minister know about the former Tory chairman’s tax affairs and when?
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The Tories retreat to the south
As the Tories advertise for campaign staff in Blue Wall seats, the Red Wall appears to have been forgotten.
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Jeremy Hunt says nothing
The Chancellor struck an optimistic tone about the potential of the British economy, but didn’t actually have anything to announce.
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How universal public services can end the cost-of-living crisis
Government provision of basic human needs, like healthcare and housing, can fight price shocks and save the planet.
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Rishi Sunak will pay a price for not sacking Nadhim Zahawi
By waiting until the investigation into the Tory chairman is complete, Sunak has appeared passive and weak.
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Why Rishi Sunak’s indecision over Nadhim Zahawi makes him look weak
The public prefers the Prime Minister to his party, but he now risks being tarnished by the Conservatives’ brand.
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PMQs: Rishi Sunak is on a losing streak
Keir Starmer delivered a brutal pay-off line: “Is he starting to wonder if this job is just too big for…
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Once you’ve seen the true extent of Tory sleaze, it’s impossible to unsee it
How can Nadhim Zahawi have made a “careless and not deliberate” error that left him with a tax bill more…
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Sunak is finding Tory MPs ungovernable
The party has forced its latest victim of a prime minister into a succession of U-turns.
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Britain’s democratic rot has continued under Rishi Sunak
The lies and autocratic legislation that defined Boris Johnson’s premiership have endured.
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Rishi Sunak must sack Nadhim Zahawi to retain any credibility
The Prime Minister’s promise of “integrity, professionalism and accountability” has been shattered.
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Levelling-up fund is poor compensation for the ravages of austerity
The latest £2bn round of levelling-up funding is a drop in the ocean compared with the fall in local authority…
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Rishi Sunak will further alienate his MPs with his comments about taxation “idiots”
With the Prime Minister refusing to reduce the tax burden and levelling up failing to deliver, Conservatives in both Red…
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