Rishi Sunak has entered the race to be the next leader of the Conservative Party and prime minister. The former chancellor is the most high profile figure so far to announce his candidacy.

The abrupt departures of national leaders worldwide this year highlighted the volatility of political leadership. Figures ...

After the most turbulent period in British politics in recent memory, Rishi Sunak became the UK's new prime minister last week. The 42-year-old former chancellor (finance minister) has a net worth ...

Rishi Sunak wasn’t merely “bad” at politics — he was mind-bendingly, excruciatingly, captivatingly hopeless at it.

Rishi Sunak has said it was his job when he was chancellor to question the cost of the government's Rwanda scheme but denied doubting it could work. Papers seen by the BBC this week suggested that ...

Former Conservative chancellor Norman Lamont has urged Rishi Sunak to ignore calls from his own MPs to ditch inheritance tax.

that the changes announced by Rishi Sunak amounted to "fiddling," as one put it. Another was scathing about what they perceived to be the political calculation made by a chancellor desperate to be ...

Rishi Sunak has been accused of giving tax cuts with one hand while ... deal”, claiming the PM has given £2 worth of tax cuts ...

Kemi Badenoch beat off Robert Jenrick and James Cleverly, who basically cocked it up, to win the Tory leadership race.

Britain has also become used to having ethnic and religious minority cabinet members in the last few years. Rishi Sunak served as chancellor, the de facto number 2 position in government, from 2020 to ...