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born 1980 England
Rishi Sunak (born 12 May 1980) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 2022 to the 2024 general election; he will resign as Leader of the Conservative Party once arrangements for selecting his successor have been confirmed. Earlier, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Second Johnson ministry from 2020 to July 2022, being appointed following the resignation of Sajid Javid in February 2020.
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The so-called 'golden era' is over, along with the naive idea that trade would lead to social and political reform [in China].
We shouldn't be bullied into believing people can be any sex they want to be, they can't. A man is a man and a woman is a woman.
I have friends who are aristocrats, I have friends who are upper class, I have friends who are working-class...well, not working class.
Words matter, especially in the current environment where tensions are running high. I think it's incumbent on all of us to choose them carefully.
There will be integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level of the government I lead and I will work day in and day out to get the job done.
Northern Ireland is in the unbelievably special position of having privileged access, not just to the U.K. home market … but also the European Union single market [...] That's like the world's most exciting economic zone!
The party of the grocer's daughter and the pharmacist's son will always be the party of enterprise
I think it's incumbent on all of us, especially those elected to parliament, not to inflame our debates in a way that's harmful to others.
Lee's comments weren't acceptable, they were wrong. That's why he's had the whip suspended.
He Keir Starmer is very decent and I have huge personal regard for him — we were together just the other night and had a nice conversation. But we don’t talk about work stuff much. Where I have some sympathy, I think, is that it’s harder to get things done than one might imagine.
Thirty years of vested interests standing in the way of change. Thirty years of rhetorical ambition which achieves little more than a short-term headline. It doesn't have to be this way. It won’t be this way
[On the government's policies on dealing with climate change] We should not take any lectures from anybody about our record. Our record is fantastic. It's better than everyone else's.
You are highly accountable. That's what I like about it. You are responsible for your investments and either they're good or they're bad ... There are nor many other people to blame, there's nowhere to hide.
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