"At least PM-in-waiting Rishi Sunak knows he’s got the markets on his side," AJ Bell financial analyst Danni Hewson said Monday. "Investors clearly hope Sunak will stabilise the economy and the political situation — though it’s hard to work out at this point which is the harder task...
Yet it is far from clear just how much the prime minister of Britain can do at a moment like this, when geopolitics could be tilting in a new, and possibly more dangerous, direction. Rishi Sunak may have more answers than most others - but he does not have all of them...
Rishi Sunak’s £400bn balancing act: With the Budget fast approaching, here’s how the Chancellor can raise revenues without wrecking the Covid recovery The last new tax proposed by an economist was the poll tax. That didn’t end well. So it is with...
After some lengthy official consideration, the Tory government of Rishi Sunak looks set to reject a proposal to hand back the Chagos Islands – whose largest Diego Garcia island is host to one of the US’ most important military bases in the Indo-Pacific – to Mauritius. In 2019, the Intern...
Rishi Sunak's administration twice warned the Lib Dem-run council, with "best value notices" issued that required it to submit about 200 pieces of raw data to government every week. Labour has now dropped this objection. The government has insisted it is not its policy to support a ...
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s announcement to support the new Rosebank oil project in July 2023 came at a crucial point in the global fight against climate change. One of the largest untapped oil reserves in UK waters, it could account for 8 per cent of the UK’s oil production by...
Recent steps by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to make the UK less attractive for overseas students will lead to a university funding shortfall and a reduced pool of talent for British employers, Ewan Kirk, founder of quantitative hedge fund Cantab Capital Partners and a former entrepreneur-in-...