The Latest Breaking News from ​​Rishi Sunak

Sunak and ministers stoking division over UK’s net zero target, warns Ed Miliband

Labour shadow energy minister will use speech to say Tory approach is also leading to higher bills

The Guardian - UK · Mar 18, 2024

Sunak braces for backlash as smoking ban bill to be introduced in Commons

Libertarian faction of Conservatives expected to stage a rebellion but measure has widespread support

The Guardian - UK · Mar 18, 2024

The Guardian view on Britain’s non-white political class: supporting change by embodying it

Editorial: The success of the three political leaders should not be seen as a repudiation of the existence of racism itself

The Guardian - UK · Mar 18, 2024

Sunak and Badenoch put on united front in face of high-level fawning

With continuing talk of a leadership challenge, PM and business secretary have little to say at stage-managed praise-filled event

The Guardian - UK · Mar 18, 2024

Loyalty was once the glue that held the Tories together. But now they’ve come unstuck

Claims of a leadership bid are ‘bonkers’, say Penny Mordaunt’s allies. But so too is staying silent while the PM stumbles towards an election, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK · Mar 18, 2024

Barack Obama drops into No10 for surprise visit on his way through London

Former US president Barack Obama popped into Downing Street on Monday for private talks with Rishi Sunak.

Evening Standard · Mar 18, 2024

Rishi Sunak aims to get Rwanda deportation flights to take off from Britain within weeks

But a bill to allow the flights is yet to clear Parliament

Evening Standard · Mar 18, 2024

Rishi Sunak hints the Tories would accept another £5 million from racism storm donor Frank Hester

The PM’s delay in branding the donor’s outburst as racist has added to disquiet among some Tory MPs over his leadership

Evening Standard · Mar 18, 2024

It’s too late to replace Sunak so Tories must ‘march towards the sound of the guns’, Ben Wallace says – as it happened

Former defence secretary tells colleagues there is no alternative to Rishi Sunak and to ‘get on with’ preparing for an election

The Guardian - UK · Mar 18, 2024

Only ‘one or two’ Tory MPs plotting against Sunak, says Badenoch

Business secretary dismisses reports of plot and rejects calls for her party to return donations from Frank Hester

The Guardian - UK · Mar 18, 2024