The Latest Breaking News from ​​Rishi Sunak

Both Labour and group of Conservative MPs say Lee Anderson defection highlights Tory failings – as it happened

Reform UK confirms Lee Anderson, former Conservative MP and ex-deputy chair, has defected to join party

The Guardian - UK · Mar 11, 2024

Tom Tugendhat urges rise in defence spending to 2.5% 'now' - but denies rift with Rishi Sunak

While Economic Secretary Bim Afolami says voters won’t be ‘bribed’ by pre-election budget giveaways

Evening Standard · Mar 11, 2024

UK pledges additional funds to protect Muslim communities

The announcement comes amid a sharp rise in anti-Muslim incidents since the start of the war in Gaza in October.

Al Jazeera · Mar 11, 2024

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall: ministers doing ‘next to nothing’ to tackle obesity

Celebrity chef clashes with health secretary over what he calls government’s lack of obesity strategy

The Guardian - UK · Mar 10, 2024

Rishi Sunak and his desperate party needed the budget to be a gamechanger. It wasn’t

Whatever the Conservatives try, their huge deficit in the opinion polls isn’t shrinking

The Guardian - UK · Mar 10, 2024

Tories fear losing half their seats in May local polls as pre-election budget flops

Victories in councils won during Boris Johnson’s ‘vaccine boost’ of 2021 face wipeout, leaving Rishi Sunak’s regime in peril

The Guardian - UK · Mar 10, 2024

Hunt’s budget backfires as twice as many voters say taxes will rise – poll

Labour’s lead over Tories increases to 16 points as chancellor’s plans suffer reverse of a budget bounce, according to Observer Opinium survey

The Guardian - UK · Mar 9, 2024

Rishi Sunak hints at welfare squeeze to fund plan to completely scrap national insurance

The PM said getting people off welfare and into work would make it possible to ‘sustainably keep cutting taxes’

Evening Standard · Mar 9, 2024

Tens of thousands of pro-Palestine protesters march through London

Attenders reiterate call for ceasefire in Gaza and condemn PM’s comments linking protests to ‘extremism’

The Guardian - UK · Mar 9, 2024

Five Great Reads: ‘Dunecore’, dysregulation and dumb red carpet questions

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

The Guardian - AU · Mar 8, 2024