Rishi Sunak grilled by GB News audience over NHS and tax cuts PM answered questions on range of topics during TV grilling in Co Durham Evening Standard · Feb 12, 2024
Rish! uses his big break on GB News to remind us he can’t connect with people The PM’s hour-long Q&A on the People’s Forum once again showed that he’s just not very good at this sort of thing The Guardian - UK · Feb 12, 2024
Rishi Sunak defends Rwanda plan during GB News Q&A session PM tells live audience deportation scheme is necessary deterrent and says he is working for long-term change The Guardian - UK · Feb 12, 2024
Intermittent fasting: what is it, how does it work – and is it right for you? From the 5:2 diet to Rishi Sunak’s 36 hours of abstinence, IF has taken off, with claims that it will make you fitter, smarter and even younger. What do the experts say? The Guardian - UK · Feb 12, 2024
Rishi Sunak tells voters he is ‘absolutely’ committed to Rwanda during Q&A on GB News – as it happened Prime minister faces one-hour grilling from voters following day of campaigning in Yorkshire The Guardian - UK · Feb 12, 2024
Morning Mail: Greens threaten to stall housing bill, Nato pushes back at Trump, ‘Bring back Boris’ call in UK Greens say they will use balance of power in Senate to compel Labor into action on negative gearing The Guardian - AU · Feb 11, 2024
The Guardian view on Rishi Sunak’s transgender jibe: sorry seems to be the hardest word Editorial: The prime minister should be making an apology to a murdered teenager’s parents rather than continuing with a culture war on GB News The Guardian - UK · Feb 11, 2024
Bring back Boris voices are growing louder but will a desperate Sunak listen? The prime minister, whose party faces electoral wipeout, may feel he has no choice but to give the Tories’ star campaigner another chance The Guardian - UK · Feb 11, 2024
Rupert Murdoch met Rishi Sunak five times in 12-month period Media mogul met government representatives 12 times in 2022-23 when he was chair of News Corp The Guardian - UK · Feb 11, 2024
Recession verdict for UK economy will be no laughing matter for Hunt and Sunak Figures on GDP, wages and inflation this week are set to offer Labour plenty of scope for criticising Tories’ economic competence The Guardian - UK · Feb 11, 2024
Bring back Boris Johnson, Kwasi Kwarteng tells Rishi Sunak Ex-chancellor calls on Sunak to ‘swallow some pride’ and bring back ‘electoral force’ that is former PM The Guardian - UK · Feb 11, 2024
Gove says Sunak was right to attack Labour U-turns after trans jibe criticism The PM’s comment, made while the mother of murdered transgender teenager Brianna Ghey was in Parliament, sparked a backlash. Evening Standard · Feb 11, 2024
By ditching its green plan Labour reveals its ideological vacuum Keir Starmer will now be appealing to voters on the basis it can run the status quo better than the Tories The Guardian - UK · Feb 11, 2024
The chilling soulless cruelty of Rishi Sunak is the stuff of nightmares Another week, another personal nadir for the PM. And now his smirking face has spilled over into my dreams The Guardian - UK · Feb 11, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Feb 11, 2024 The week in TV: One Day; Piers Morgan: Uncensored; Rishi Sunak: Up Close; Curb Your Enthusiasm; G’Wed – review Love blossoms, frays and draws you into an adaptation of David Nicholls’s bittersweet bestseller; Piers Morgan brings out the worst in Rishi Sunak; a cheeky new Liverpool school comedy ignites the screen; and is this finally Larry David’s last hurrah?
The Guardian - UK · Feb 10, 2024 We’ve given up the fight, say top Tories as byelection defeats loom Senior Conservative says party has descended into ‘death spiral’ as poll losses set to fuel fresh attacks on Sunak’s leadership
The Guardian - UK · Feb 10, 2024 I wasn’t surprised by Rishi Sunak’s cheap trans jibe – but I was confounded by the outcry Had Esther Ghey not been in the room, it would have been business as usual, says the freelance journalist Freddy McConnell
The Guardian - UK · Feb 9, 2024 Rishi Sunak paid effective tax rate of 23% on £2.2m income last year Low capital gains rate and US location of funds mean tax bill of £508,000 much less than under top income rate of 45%
The Guardian - UK · Feb 9, 2024 Local authority leaders criticise Sunak’s call for ‘restrained’ council tax rises Prime minister’s comments ‘remarkable’ given government cuts to town hall funding in England, say LGA bosses
Evening Standard · Feb 9, 2024 Rishi Sunak made £1.8m in capital gains and paid £508,000 in tax, documents show The Prime Minister published a summary of his tax affairs on a Friday afternoon while Parliament was in recess
The Guardian - UK · Feb 9, 2024 The frightening thing is not that Tories are paraded as more fiscally competent. It’s that even Labour believes it Abandoning its £28bn green plan betrays a lack of self-belief that has long bedevilled the party, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett
The Guardian - UK · Feb 9, 2024 Remaining Labour policies face ‘bombproof’ test to finalise manifesto Huge cut to £28bn green pledge is part of Keir Starmer’s scrutiny of proposals in time for a possible May election
The Guardian - UK · Feb 9, 2024 Digested week: media frenzy over king’s cancer does no one any favours We talk of the dignity of the crown but this is anything but. We need a grown-up relationship with the royal family
The Guardian - UK · Feb 9, 2024 Junior doctors in England to strike again after pay talks break down BMA votes for further five days of action after meeting with health secretary fails to resolve grievances
The Guardian - UK · Feb 9, 2024 Rishi Sunak criticises local authorities for requesting steep council tax rises Criticism comes as councils struggle to cope with shortfalls that have left several on brink of bankruptcy