Sunak is the first person of colour to take the top post. But he faces a host of problems at home, as well as a Conservative Party tearing itself apart.
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Sunak’s grandparents were born in India before travelling to East Africa, where his parents were born.
It has been a short but very eventful journey to the top for a man who has only been in parliament since 2015.
Rishi Sunak is taking over as UK prime minister from Liz Truss during very difficult economic times.
Many still speculate about what George Canning would have achieved had he not died 119 days into his premiership.
The law says MPs have to vote in favour of holding an election – and with the Conservatives facing huge losses, there’s little chance of them wanting one.
It is time for the Conservative Party to have a cup of tea, a Bex and good lie down.
The runners and riders in 2022’s second Conservative party leadership race.
The shortest serving prime minister in British history ran into trouble even before taking office.
When government whips turned a vote on fracking into a vote of confidence in the government, confusion ensued.
After years of testing the limits of British democracy, the government finally got a taste of its own medicine when Labour used a parliamentary mechanism to lay Tory divisions bare.
The Conservative Party is hopelessly stuck in the 1980s, and it may yet be the undoing of Liz Truss as prime minister.
Only months into the job, Prime Minister Liz Truss is on her way out already, leaving her government in search of a new leader and a way to regain public trust.
Europeans living in the Uk and British people living in Europe say they’ve been giving more thought to their identities since Brexit.
The Conservative party is in chaos but that is perhaps a symptom of a wider problem in the British political system.
Liz Truss has appointed Jeremy Hunt to replace the chancellor who led on the now infamous mini-budget – but it may not be enough.
The top office is not a playground for ideological experiment.
Research has long shown that criminalising otherwise law-abiding citizens for their drug use is no deterrent. It only damages their life chances, in a discriminatory fashion.
The prime minister’s main obsession could lead her down a dead end.
In her first party conference speech as prime minister, Liz Truss has emphasised that growth is the only solution.
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Paul Whiteley is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Founding Director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics, University of Sheffield
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Associate Tutor in Politics and Social Sciences, Edge Hill University
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Professor of Politics & International Studies, The Open University
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Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, Edge Hill University
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Manchester
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Associate Professor of British Politics, University of Leeds
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Ashbel Smith Professor, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas
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Head of Politics, Sheffield Hallam University
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British Politics Lecturer, University of Liverpool
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Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History, Newcastle University
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Associate Professor of Politics, Richmond American International University
