All news on the topic: Rishi Sunak

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New UK smoking ban faces key vote - how it works and how it will impact you
MPs will be given the first chance today to debate and vote on plans to raise the legal age to buy tobacco up by ’one year, every year’ to stop youngsters taking up smoking
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Rishi Sunak condemns Iran’s ’reckless attack’ on Israel and says regime is ’sowing chaos in backyard’
The Prime Minister said the UK will "continue to stand up for Israel’s security and that of all our regional partners" as reports suggested RAF Typhoons would be involved in protecting the country on Saturday
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Boris Johnson refuses to rule out return as MP as Tories face electoral wipeout
Ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who quit last year after a damning report into Partygate, hinted a return to frontline politics was possible in the long-term future
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Rishi Sunak allocated £2 million for focus groups to gather feedback on the "Eat Out to Help Out" scheme
Extensive polling ordered by the then chancellor, documents reveal, but scientific advisers not consulted
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Rwanda’s national airline reportedly declines to transport asylum seekers to Kigali, delivering a setback to Rishi Sunak’s plans
RwandAir has reportedly turned down an approach from the Government to fly asylum seekers to Kigali as campaigners call on airlines to refuse to take part in the asylum scheme
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Rishi must crack the whip and increase defence spending to shield Britons from looming threats, ex-army chief says
General Richard Dannatt joined the growing chorus of pleas for more cash
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Labour will close £430million ’loophole’ in Tory plan to axe non-dom tax for super-rich
In a major U-turn last month Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said he would axe the non-dom tax break. But Labour’s Rachel Reeves warned the plans contain ’a load of loopholes’
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After Jeffrey Donaldson’s bombshell exit, what next for Northern Ireland’s DUP?
As party reels, new leader Gavin Robinson faces a U.K. election that could cost him his seat.
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Israel admits ‘serious failures’ over deadly strike but insists aid workers were mistaken for Hamas
Biden and Netanyahu spoke on Thursday for first time since deaths of aid workers as pressure mounts on Sunak to withdraw arms sales
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Labour now projected to win more than 400 seats in new blow for Sunak
YouGov polling predicts the worst general election result for the Tories since John Major’s 1997 defeat
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Arms sales to Israel: Top judges urge UK to halt weapons trade
Three former Supreme Court justices have joined more than 600 legal experts in calling for the UK government to end weapons sales to Israel.
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Multi-millionaire Rishi Sunak offers public financial advice in bizarre video
Rishi Sunak has offered financial advice to members of the public in a bizarre video posted on Twitter/X.
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1.6million more pensioners will be forced to pay income tax because of sneaky change
Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has refused to increase the threshold when people start paying income tax so record numbers of pensioners are being landed with tax bills
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Councils demand independent review of ‘arbitrary’ levelling up schemes
Boris Johnson’s 2019 policy faces accusation of being politicised and failing to tackle skills shortages
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Ex-Special Forces hero killed in Gaza air strike revealed as married dad of 2 described by comrades as ‘brilliant bloke’
Mr Chapman had been in Gaza only a few weeks after stints in the Middle East
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PM backs JK Rowling’s views on new hate crime law
The prime minister has said people should not be criminalised "for stating simple facts on biology" in response to JK Rowling’s criticism of Scotland’s new hate crime law.
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Rough sleepers could be fined £2,500 or even jailed under proposed laws – but Rishi Sunak faces rebellion over plans
The Criminal Justice Bill would allow cops to move on, fine or lock up "nuisance" rough sleepers
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Rishi Sunak risks losing his seat as Tories reduced to 98 constituencies in general election mega poll
The Best For Britain MRP indicates 14 current ministers and secretaries of state will lose their seats in an unprecedented wave of Portillo moments
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Rishi Sunak surprise honours list announced - from Christopher Nolan to Tory mega-donor
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak doled out damehoods, knighthoods and CBEs to tech experts, Tory MPs and those in the creative industry as he published a surprise list of gongs
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Rishi Sunak hands knighthood to Tory mega-donor who gave party £5million
Billionaire Mohamed Mansour, who is a Conservative Party treasurer, was among those given gongs in a surprise honours list snuck out by Downing Street before the Easter weekend
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Record small boat crossings for start of year in blow to Rishi Sunak’s migrant pledge
The Home Office called the figure “unacceptable” and said it showed the importance of getting flights to Rwanda going as soon as possible
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6 bits of terrible news slipped out by the Tories as MPs head off on Easter holidays
As MPs break up for the Easter recess, Rishi Sunak’s government attempted to sweep some bad news under the carpet, including stats blunders and embarrassing reports
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Rishi Sunak mocks Liz Truss’s claims she was ousted as PM by the ‘Deep State’
Ms Truss made the claims to a US audience when she attended the big conservative conference CPAC
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Rishi Sunak launches surprise reshuffle with 2 ministers OUT hours after committee grilling
James Heappey and Robert Halfon quit just months ahead of a general election