Rishi Sunak Concepts

Failed State: The Sunday Times Bestselling Investigation Into Why Britain Is Struggling

by Sam Freedman · 10 Jul 2024 · 368pp · 101,133 words

the rise again.12 The one thing everyone does seem to be able to agree on is that the system is broken. Even Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said as much in his 2023 party conference speech: ‘Politics doesn’t work the way it should. We’ve had thirty years of a political

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. You can tell how much this frustrates prime ministers as they keep bringing Barber back – Boris Johnson asked him to review overall government delivery, and Rishi Sunak the delivery of skills reform.23 Reviews of the centre of government typically revert back to that period too, as the most effective it has

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attributes required to do the job effectively. His No. 10 turned into a battleground of competing courts and stopped functioning as a government at all. Rishi Sunak, picking up after the painfully inept Truss interregnum, returned No. 10 to the late Cameron structure, with Policy and Delivery Units. And he probably came

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, that money has been targeted at certain areas for political reasons rather than due to need. The same select committee noted, with eyebrows arched, that Rishi Sunak’s Richmondshire constituency had received £19 million of Levelling Up Fund money, despite being one of the richest in the country.38 A different committee

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often back off in the face of significant backbench opposition, even if they would win the vote.6 A good example from 2022 was when Rishi Sunak scrapped house-building targets, a hugely consequential policy decision, to avoid a backbench rebellion on a vote he would have won anyway given Labour had

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achieve any real-world goal, but to give the impression of activity. Both of the Immigration Acts passed by the governments of Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak fall into this category and yet had immensely serious potential consequences that consumed a vast amount of parliamentary and government effort. The second reason executive

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was under consideration in 2018 and 2019, MPs, knowing her leadership was not going to survive much longer, rebelled in the largest numbers ever seen. Rishi Sunak, despite working hard to maintain party unity, often at the cost of his desired agenda, faced regular rebellions simply because so many MPs knew their

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was published in the summer of 2023 his abuse of the system had become farcical. The Appointments Committee blocked eight of his proposed peers, which Rishi Sunak declined to overturn, but they let through supporters who it seems had no reasonable claim to a lifetime position in the legislature. These included 29

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. Only the government’s meltdown in the summer of 2022, followed by Raab’s own resignation over bullying civil servants, stopped this from happening. Initially Rishi Sunak seemed more amenable to the rule of law, negotiating a solution to the Northern Ireland Protocol with the EU in February 2023. But his insistence

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minister. It is unusual for civil servants to make formal complaints about bullying and mistreatment, but at least twenty-four did so about Raab, forcing Rishi Sunak to agree to a formal inquiry by the barrister Adam Tolley.4 In the careful language of a lawyer, Tolley ruled that he had bullied

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lots of other priorities dropped to make way. It is a hopeless way to run a country. And the public barely noticed either announcement anyway. Rishi Sunak’s shambolic announcement, at the 2023 conference, that he was going to replace the Manchester leg of HS2 with a variety of other transport projects

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Illegal Migration Act acknowledged in the introduction to the bill that it was likely not to be legal, but it was passed anyway. Why? Because Rishi Sunak had, as one of his five big pledges on becoming prime minister, promised to pass an Act to stop small boats crossing the channel. He

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Johnson was unusually personally susceptible to press influence. But even prime ministers who try to be a bit less media driven, like Theresa May or Rishi Sunak, cannot ignore the impact that these newspapers have on their own party, even as their circulation dwindles. For instance, in 2023, the Department for Education

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during her campaign for the party leadership.24 Dressing up as Thatcher was not an option for Rishi Sunak but he did get her chancellor, Nigel Lawson, to write an endorsement in The Daily Telegraph headlined ‘Rishi Sunak is the only candidate who understands Thatcherite economics’.25 He has continued to try and connect

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steel against the unions. Now Boris Johnson must show his mettle, writes former Tory minister’ ‘Why there was only one Iron Lady, by Henry Kissinger’ ‘Rishi Sunak should follow Margaret Thatcher and defend using private health’ ‘We’ve blown Mrs Thatcher’s legacy. Now Rishi must confront the truth’ ‘Britain needs bold

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tax cuts to make Mrs Thatcher’s shareholder democracy dream a reality’ ‘Rishi Sunak hasn’t yet grasped the secret of how Mrs Thatcher inspired Britain to strive’28 It is hardly a surprise that Conservative candidates who wish

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to use executive power in a way that our constitution, such as it is, appears to allow but no one ever intended. His advice to Rishi Sunak, when they met clandestinely in 2023, was, in his own words: ‘That he should, unlike his predecessors, actually use his full constitutional power to control

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, way. The elder two, who are twins, became teenagers while I was working on this book and offered to contribute. But their main idea – that ‘Rishi Sunak is a knobhead’ – didn’t really fit with my systems rather than people focus. Finally, I want to thank my parents. My dad, author of

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November 2023, https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statutory-homelessness-in-england-april-to-june-2023. 13 https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/full-text-rishi-sunaks-tory-conferencespeech/ 14 https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/ipsos-trust-in-professions-veracity-index-2023 CHAPTER 1: NO NINJAS 1 Patrick Wintour, ‘Cabinet secretary

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break’, The Guardian, 28 September 2013, https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/sep/27/tory-tax-break-marriage-glue 29 Adam Forrest and Jon Stone, ‘Rishi Sunak admits list of HS2 replacement projects just “illustrative” and not pledges’, The Independent, 9 October 2023, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/hs2

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-rishi-sunak-cancel-pledges-metro-b2426729.html 30 Jill Rutter and William Knighton, ‘Legislated Policy Targets’, Institute for Government, 2012, https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/

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, 16 July 2022, https://metro.co.uk/2022/07/16/liz-truss-wears-identical-outfit-to-margaret-thatcher-at-tory-debate-17010566/ 25 Nigel Lawson, ‘Rishi Sunak is the only candidate who understands Thatcherite economics’, The Telegraph, 3 August 2022, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/03

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/rishi-sunak-candidate-who-understands-thatcherite-economics/ 26 Rowena Mason and Peter Walker, ‘“Clause IV on steroids”: Keir Starmer says his Labour must go further than Blair’,

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Mail, 22 October 2022, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11344127/HENRY-KISSINGER-Liz-Truss-saw-heir-Thatcher-one-Iron-Lady.html; Andrew Pierce, ‘Rishi Sunak should follow Margaret Thatcher and defend using private health’, Daily Mail, 10 January 2023, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11616973/ANDREW-PIERCE

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-Rishi-Sunak-follow-Margaret-Thatcher-defend-using-private-health.html; Philip Johnston, ‘We’ve blown Mrs Thatcher’s legacy. Now Rishi must confront the truth’, Daily Telegraph,

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Telegraph, 19 August 2023, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/08/19/britain-needs-bold-tax-cuts-to-make-mrs-thatchers-sharehold/; Charles Moore, ‘Rishi Sunak hasn’t yet grasped the secret of how Mrs Thatcher inspired Britain to strive’, Daily Telegraph, 20 January 2023, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news

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/2023/01/20/rishi-sunak-hasnt-yet-grasped-secret-how-mrs-thatcher-inspired/ 29 Simon Heffer, ‘No End of a Lesson: The Imitation Thatcherism of Liz Truss’, The Centre for

Tory Nation: The Dark Legacy of the World's Most Successful Political Party

by Samuel Earle · 3 May 2023 · 245pp · 88,158 words

could Johnson have the licence even to propose replacing his replacement as Conservative prime minister, little more than a month after leaving office. Even when Rishi Sunak’s appointment became obvious, the Daily Telegraph journalist Tim Stanley commented that ‘many people will slowly come to see that Liz was one of our

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performer, in the ’90s; Cameron and Johnson, two Old Etonians with ancestral links to the royal family, in the twenty-first century; and most recently Rishi Sunak, Britain’s first non-white prime minister. Perhaps the Conservatives’ greatest historical achievement has been securing consistent support from the working class. While the Conservatives

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austerity. ‘Our country has now embarked on a wonderful adventure,’ Johnson declared upon victory. Three years later, the Daily Mail was celebrating another ‘new dawn’: Rishi Sunak was prime minister, now promising a return to austerity. ‘Together we can achieve incredible things,’ Sunak declared. Rarely has a political party wielded so much

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allegiance – otherwise, they are likely to be the ones accused of betrayal. During the 2022 Conservative leadership campaign, the two main contenders Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak took increasingly elaborate steps to prove that they, not their opponent, were the true heir to Thatcher’s legacy. A Conservative election campaign led by

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country”’. Truss was once declared their ‘Common Sense Champion’. In 2021, Jordon Peterson was awarded the Common Sense Society’s inaugural Sir Roger Scruton Prize. Rishi Sunak described his approach as ‘common sense Thatcherism’ – pressing all the Tories’ buttons at once. No matter how Conservatives change, their commitment to ‘common sense’ remains

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everyday. This has particular appeal to a band of politicians who rarely have much ‘common’ about them, a phantom thread that ties the likes of Rishi Sunak, Boris Johnson and David Cameron to the ‘common man’. The concept’s faux-humility and anti-intellectualism – implying that Conservatives share the views of ordinary

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Edmund Burke to Boris Johnson, and onwards to Liz Truss (who began – or perhaps ended – her prime ministership with a defence of bankers’ bonuses) and Rishi Sunak. Even their acceptance of nationalised services, higher taxes and greater public spending after the war was motivated by the premise that anything less would put

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was yet to come. By the time the 2015 election was over, the number of Conservative MPs from ethnic minorities had risen sixfold, future leader Rishi Sunak among them. By 2022, the Conservatives could boast twenty-two MPs from ethnic minorities (twenty-two more than they had in 2001), after running seventy

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, on either the right or the left, could match. Liz Truss ultimately won the leadership election, but when her prime ministership quickly collapsed, runner-up Rishi Sunak, a practising Hindu and second-generation immigrant, replaced her. The Conservatives had delivered Britain’s first non-white PM. Such diversity in the Conservatives’ upper

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the only reason for the Conservatives’ increasingly diverse front bench. ‘To an extent, colour gives cover.’ In a campaign video during the 2022 leadership contest, Rishi Sunak devoted almost five minutes to the need to toughen Britain’s ‘broken’ borders and claimed that immigration was ‘completely out of control’. ‘I will make

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wife, Mary Wakefield, is the magazine’s commissioning editor, and has written for The Times, Telegraph, the Sun and Mail); his chancellor, and eventual successor, Rishi Sunak, was the best man at the wedding of James Forsyth (political editor at the Spectator, columnist at The Times and, as of December 2022, Sunak

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headline: ‘PM backs your right to pass on wealth’.30 The same pattern played out when it was revealed that the wife of the chancellor Rishi Sunak was registered as non-domicile. Dan Hodges, for the Daily Mail, immediately took to Twitter to denounce those pushing the story as sexist, suggesting they

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important Conservative minister, and the journalist’s instinct is to jump to their defence.) The Sun’s headline framed the story in Sunak’s favour: ‘Rishi Sunak’s wife Akshata Murty defends non dom tax status and blasts claims she’s a tax dodger’, while the Daily Express merely included the revelation

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from poorer areas to shore up Conservative seats, with some of the wealthiest parts of England receiving ten times more per capita than the poorest. Rishi Sunak confirmed as much on the campaign trail, as the former chancellor vied to replace Johnson. ‘We inherited a bunch of formulas from Labour that shoved

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Shapps, withdrew before he could be nominated, and the other, Jeremy Hunt, had already tried and failed for the leadership in 2019. Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak swiftly moved to the head of the pack, and on 20 July, it became a two-horse race. The contest had the drawn-out feeling

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opportunity and flew back to Britain with the hope of resuming the leadership. He had significant support within the party, but not as much as Rishi Sunak, who quickly emerged as the favourite. There would be no membership vote this time: in a return to tradition, this leader would be selected solely

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Tories’ infamous survival instincts showed themselves again. Liz Truss resigned on Thursday; Boris Johnson dropped out of the race on Sunday;46 and on Monday, Rishi Sunak was declared Britain’s new PM: the first ever with Asian heritage, and the wealthiest party leader since at least Lord Salisbury.47 Surely no

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company Greensill Capital, lobbying the Conservative government he once led. Theresa May spent twelve years at the Bank of England before becoming a Conservative MP. Rishi Sunak, who spent fourteen years in the financial sector and whose wife is a billionaire heiress and venture capitalist, brings an even greater level of intimacy

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. 36 Tim Shipman, ‘Will ‘Red Tory’ Johnsonism win the next election or collapse under its own contradictions?’, Sunday Times, 9 October 2021. 37 Rachel Wearmouth, ‘Rishi Sunak boasted of taking money from ‘deprived urban areas’ to help wealthy towns’, New Statesman, 5 August 2022. 38 Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, Routledge

Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain's Battle With Coronavirus

by Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott · 18 Mar 2021 · 432pp · 143,491 words

and he tendered his resignation. His tenure as chancellor had been the shortest since 1970 – just 204 days. Within hours Johnson had replaced him with Rishi Sunak, who had been Javid’s second-in-command as the chief secretary to the Treasury. Smart, confident and only 39 years old, Sunak was a

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the Caribbean a few weeks earlier, auctioned a grouse-shooting party on his country estate. Donors could also dubiously buy access to the new chancellor Rishi Sunak by sharing a box with him at Lord’s for an England versus Australia one-day cricket match. The secretary of state for justice, Robert

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February believing coronavirus to be a medically ‘irrational panic’ was rapidly dissipating. His government was panicking and nothing showed this more clearly than the chancellor Rishi Sunak’s big gesture on the afternoon of Tuesday 17 March. Sunak was the new Clark Kent in town, but he was not acting as the

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activity and, at some point, people would have to get back to work again. The Treasury could see a deep recession on the horizon and Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, took the view that restrictions needed to be lifted sooner rather than later to avoid financial calamity and mass unemployment. Some Tory MPs

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he was being pressed to do something about the country’s financial position. Lockdown was costing the Treasury an awful lot of money. That week, Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, extended the UK’s furlough scheme until October. Under the scheme, the government covered 80 per cent of employees’ monthly wages up to

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having no new community cases of Covid-19 as quickly as possible.’7 That evening, however, was the turning point. Johnson held a meeting with Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, and other key ministers that resulted in a decision to throw aside his cautious approach. The Sunday Times’s political editor Tim Shipman

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party, and pursue one of its favourite pastimes again: drinking beer in pubs. It was also the moment when the second wave began. The chancellor Rishi Sunak had been desperate to foster a summer feel-good factor that would boost consumer confidence and get the cash tills rolling again. His normally sedate

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journalists that a big announcement would be made on Tuesday. However, one key member of the operation committee was not onside. It was the chancellor, Rishi Sunak. On the Friday evening, Sunak met with Johnson in Downing Street to express deep concern about the damage a lockdown would do to business and

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that discretion was vital. When the experts dialled in to the Zoom call at 6 p.m. the next day they found Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak at the end of the long mahogany cabinet room table in Downing Street. The presence of the chancellor with no sign of other ministers was

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internationally as a ‘plague island’, to borrow the words of the New York Times again. Any inquiry will also question the role of his chancellor, Rishi Sunak. The new ‘golden boy’, Sunak was influential in persuading Johnson to reject the call for the circuit breaker lockdown in September. Johnson preferred the chancellor

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during the media inquisition into his 528-mile round trip to Durham while suffering Covid-19 symptoms. (© Jonathan Brady/Pool/AFP via Getty Images) Chancellor Rishi Sunak launches the ill-fated Eat Out to Help Out scheme by serving tables at a Wagamama restaurant. He was criticised for failing to wear a

Vassal State

by Angus Hanton · 25 Mar 2024 · 277pp · 81,718 words

Johnson showed his commitment to the US by publicly offering this advice to his successor: ‘Stay close to the Americans.’27 The current prime minister, Rishi Sunak, probably has the strongest loyalties to the US of all of them. After a degree at Oxford he went on to study for an MBA

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status, a recognised form of efficient tax planning. On the back of the public criticism she announced she would pay tax on her future earnings. Rishi Sunak is the wealthiest prime minister ever and much of that wealth is tied to the US.30 There can be no doubt about the allure

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of global affairs, earning at least £2.8 million annually for advancing the company’s interests in Britain and Europe. And, in November 2023, when Rishi Sunak hosted a big conference on the safety of AI, the star guest was Elon Musk. Sunak’s 40-minute interview with Mr Musk at Lancaster

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do not ‘scale up’ The UK government tells a confident story about Britain’s tech business acumen. In one 2023 example, a press release from Rishi Sunak invited investment in the tech sector, calling the UK an ‘island of innovation’. In it, he explained that the UK corporation tax rate was the

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Arm, in 2023 SoftBank decided that it should relist the business on the stock market but anchored to a US exchange. The British prime minister, Rishi Sunak, joined numerous discussions to bring Arm back to Britain, and begged SoftBank to offer a secondary listing of Arm shares in the UK. This too

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flashes of raw power, influence is usually exerted more subtly and the public often do not notice how much US interests are being promoted. When Rishi Sunak first hinted in September 2023 that the northern leg of the HS2 rail project might be abandoned, due to the difficulty of paying for it

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shot: “Stay close to the Americans”’, Politico [website] (20 July 2022), https://www.politico.eu/article/stay-close-americans-boris-johnson-parting-shot/. 28 ‘Chancellor Rishi Sunak held US green card until last year’, BBC News [website] (8 April 2022), https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61044847. 29 Peter Walker

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in tax with non-dom status’, Guardian (7 April 2022), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/07/rishi-sunaks-wife-says-its-not-relevant-to-say-where-she-pays-tax-overseas. 30 Rupert Neate, ‘Rishi Sunak and Akshata Murty join UK rich list with combined £730m fortune’, Guardian (20 May 2022), https://www

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.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/20/sri-and-gopi-hinduja-named-uk-richest-people-james-dyson. 31 Kiran Stacey, ‘Labour accuses Rishi Sunak of angling for job after Elon Musk interview’, Guardian (3 November 2023), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/03/labour-accuses

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-rishi-sunak-of-angling-for-job-after-elon-musk-interview. 32 Tomas Malloy, ‘Tata Somerset gigafactory: UK government’s huge “£500m” battery plant subsidy explained’, SomersetLive [website] (

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December 2021), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17kULzySxCI. 26 Quoted in Mark Sweney, ‘UK chip designer Arm chooses US-only listing in blow to Rishi Sunak’, Guardian (3 March 2023), https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/03/uk-chip-designer-arm-chooses-us-only-listing-in-blow-to

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-rishi-sunak. 27 Author’s research, mostly based on reviewing companies’ 10-K Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings. 28 A. J. Chavar, ‘Why you keep using

Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors: 50 Places That Changed British Politics

by Matt Chorley · 8 Feb 2024 · 254pp · 75,897 words

a minister within two years and chancellor of the exchequer by 1950, just five years after entering the Commons – a meteoric rise later matched by Rishi Sunak. He experienced life in opposition for the first time in 1951, when Churchill returned as PM. After Attlee went on to lose the 1955 election

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kept on moving. In 1995 he became rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, where one of the students during his time was his fourth future PM. Rishi Sunak was studying philosophy, politics and economics and graduated with a first in 2001, the year after Anderson had returned again to Eton, this time as

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doing a lot of wielding while Tony Blair was in Number 10 before taking the crown himself. Boris Johnson’s weapon was rarely sheathed. Even Rishi Sunak, who was initially punished by Tory members for knifing Johnson in the summer of 2022, got there in the end. And if Major had had

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there. John Bew, a professor of history and foreign policy at King’s College London who went on to advise Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak in Downing Street, has hailed Canning as the ‘torchbearer for the “liberal Tory” tradition’. When he became prime minister he split his party, with several

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councillor, serving as leader of the Conservative group on Kirklees council, where he had once been council leader; and then there was this chap called Rishi Sunak, who had barely set an expensively shod foot in Yorkshire before the process started and came with a CV stuffed with references to Oxford, Harvard

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to join and indeed lead the party he represented. It is perhaps the greatest rebuff to Powell that the Conservative’s top ranks have included Rishi Sunak, James Cleverly and Priti Patel, who had grandparents and parents who arrived from Africa in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. When Cleverly was challenged

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the NHS and social care – a U-turn which was then U-turned upon by Liz Truss during her brief premiership and stuck to by Rishi Sunak. Theresa May has the rare honour of U-turning on a manifesto pledge even before a single vote had been cast, again on the thorny

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of as foreign secretary. He was ‘90 per cent certain’ that he would be her chancellor. He was confirmed in the role when Truss beat Rishi Sunak to become PM on 6 September. Two days later Queen Elizabeth II died, and the country – and politics – entered a period of national mourning. Behind

Who Will Defend Europe?: An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent

by Keir Giles · 24 Oct 2024 · 296pp · 81,440 words

place until it might, eventually, be allowed to join NATO. The first of these agreements was signed in Kyiv by the then British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, in January 2024. It was followed by a rash of others forming a web of overlapping commitments, that are probably the closest Ukraine can currently

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conflict, but not even properly preparing for it.12 Nor did it help that the urgency of the challenge appeared lost on Conservative prime minister Rishi Sunak, who earned a reputation for not just failing to understand the need for defence but manifesting a lack of interest in it and the people

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miles away, but could now hit home. Unsurprisingly, Sanders’s wake-up call met with resistance from within government. A spokesman for then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak responded by saying that “hypothetical scenarios of a future potential conflict were not helpful”; a brutally honest admission that official UK government policy at the

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, “UK strikes in Yemen: Britain ‘should prepare for further wars’”, The Times, 15 January 2024, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/uk-strikes-yemen-houthis-rishi-sunak-mps-address-red-sea-b2zwdrl2m 12.Will Hazell, “UK has failed to prepare itself for war, warn former defence ministers”, The Telegraph, 6 April 2024

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military spending increase in a generation”, The Telegraph, 23 April 2024, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/04/23/britain-boost-defence-spending-2030-rishi-sunak/ 29.Malcolm Chalmers, “Committing to 2.5%: Is Help at Hand for the UK’s Defences?”, RUSI, 24 April 2024, https://rusi.org/explore-our

More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity

by Adam Becker · 14 Jun 2025 · 381pp · 119,533 words

—and that it would be good to give my brain a break from claims of AI doom. It was a nice idea while it lasted. “Rishi Sunak Races to Tighten Rules for Artificial Intelligence amid Fears of Existential Risk,” blared the top headline on the Guardian’s website that afternoon.51 “[Prime

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Minister] Rishi Sunak is scrambling to update the government’s approach to regulating artificial intelligence, amid warnings that the industry poses an existential risk to humanity,” the article

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, front page, archived May 26, 2023, at the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20230526150343/theguardian.com/uk. 52 Kiran Stacey and Rowena Mason, “Rishi Sunak Races to Tighten Rules for AI Amid Fears of Existential Risk,” The Guardian, May 26, 2023, www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/26

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-to-tighten-rules-for-ai-amid-fears-of-existential-risk. 53 Laurie Clarke, “How Silicon Valley Doomers Are Shaping Rishi Sunak’s AI plans,” Politico, September 14, 2023, www.politico.eu/article/rishi-sunak-artificial-intelligence-pivot-safety-summit-united-kingdom-silicon-valley-effective-altruism/. 54 Toby Ord (@tobyordoxford), Twitter (now X), May 30

England: Seven Myths That Changed a Country – and How to Set Them Straight

by Tom Baldwin and Marc Stears · 24 Apr 2024 · 357pp · 132,377 words

Gardens which were at risk of going bust. Blackpool was visited four times by three different prime ministers in 2022. On the same day as Rishi Sunak arrived in November that year, his government announced a multi-million-pound bailout for the redevelopment of the old railway station which had stalled because

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, there was a nerdier Jeremy Hunt or Ed Davey. They were followed by Liz Truss campaigning for the Liberal Democrats and against the monarchy and Rishi Sunak running a university-wide society for playing the stock market. There were the Miliband brothers – pick David or Ed – or an Andrew Adonis, donning Marks

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High Street, we take a sharp right turn, round the back of the college where David Cameron studied politics and the front of one where Rishi Sunak did the same, then emerge on to Broad Street. This is where the college that educated Boris Johnson has, we are told, taken down its

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the markets, or what she later called ‘a very powerful economic establishment’.85 In the aftermath, Keir Starmer became leader of the Labour Party and Rishi Sunak of the Conservatives. Unusually, both had successful careers outside Parliament, one as a barrister, the other as a banker. Starmer talks of restoring certainty for

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they stood for 2,300 years before being shipped off to England by the 7th Earl of Elgin at the start of the nineteenth century. Rishi Sunak, presumably in an effort to appease nationalist sentiments in the Conservative Party, refused to meet the Greek Prime Minister when he visited London because he

Politics on the Edge: The Instant #1 Sunday Times Bestseller From the Host of Hit Podcast the Rest Is Politics

by Rory Stewart · 13 Sep 2023 · 534pp · 157,700 words

somehow even in this most junior of junior positions, I was already occasionally asking myself if I could be the successor to Cameron’s successor. Rishi Sunak, with whom I shared a table in the House of Commons library, chose to endorse Brexit. There was something bold and surprising in such a

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less offending outside. I began by trying to end the practice of sending people to prison for not paying their council tax or TV licences. Rishi Sunak was the junior minister whose department was responsible for sending people who owed council tax to jail. He had been a minister for only six

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, filthy and overcrowded. They make people more criminal.’ ‘That,’ he retorted, ‘is hardly our department’s fault.’ The hour ended with our relationship bruised, and Rishi Sunak unconvinced. Having failed to get his department to voluntarily alter their policy, the only remaining option was to introduce primary legislation. I proposed a law

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and favourite, minister in the Cabinet Office and then Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Remainer. Leadership candidate in 2019. First elected 2015 Rishi Sunak (born 1980), MP for Richmond (Yorks). Son of a doctor. Worked for Goldman Sachs, and then a hedge fund, married to the daughter of the

The Price of Life: In Search of What We're Worth and Who Decides

by Jenny Kleeman · 13 Mar 2024 · 334pp · 96,342 words

of a human life – a human life is priceless, period.’ The British government held the same view. In his public statement on 17 March 2020, Rishi Sunak, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, promised to do ‘whatever it takes’ to see the UK through the crisis. ‘We will support jobs, we will support

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-life-worth-cuomo-175254762.html ‘whatever it takes’ ‘Speech: Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak on COVID19 response’, HM Treasury and The Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP (17 March 2020). https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/chancellor-of-the-exchequer-rishi-sunak-on-covid19-response The Spectator Wood, Simon, ‘Covid, lockdown and the economics of valuing