Rishi Sunak - report

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 2022

Rishi Sunak is a British politician serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2022. He previously held two cabinet positions under Boris Johnson, lastly as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2020 to 2022. Sunak has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Richmond (Yorks) since 2015. He is the first British Asian and Hindu to hold the office of prime minister.

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2022 2023 2024

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Rishi Sunak accused of hiking up council tax and national insurance. Labour's Rachel Reeves accuses him of hiding the detail in his Budget. Shop bosses condemned a'missed opportunity' to reform business rates.
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Rishi Sunak delivers levelling-up budget with increase in minimum wage and watering down of benefit cuts. Universal Credit is being made more generous to give families another £2billion. Fuel duty is frozen for the 12th year in a row while petrol prices climb.
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Chancellor slammed over plans to ignore 2019 manifesto pledge to cut business rates. Accused of being 'captured by the Treasury' as it was claimed he will only tinker around the edges. Comes amid widespread calls for reform in the wake of the Covid pandemic. Rising fuel prices, tens of billions of pounds of tax increases and inflationary pressures are fuelling a cost of living crisis.
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UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak announces 2,000 new AI scholarships for disadvantaged youth. Sunak announced £500 million funding package to expand job support schemes. He said he was "proud" to have supported Brexit, and leaving the EU would make the UK more "agile"
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UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak hails 'historic' decision by G7 countries. New policy is thought to be aimed at the likes of tech giants Amazon and Microsoft. US President Joe Biden initially proposed a minimum global rate of 21 percent.
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Business rate holiday extended until June, followed by a two-thirds reduced rate for the rest of the financial year. Freeze of VAT at 5 per cent for hospitality firms until June. Universal Credit uplift of £20 a week set to be extended for another six months. Stamp duty holiday for house sales up to £500,000 could be extended. Minimum wage will be increased to £8.91 an hour for over-23s.
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Rishi Sunak admits economy will be 3% smaller in five years than before Covid. Office for National Statistics said over the whole of 2020 the economy dived by 9.9 per cent. Furloughed workers will continue to receive 80 per cent of their wages.
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£594m will be made available to councils and devolved nations. Comes after Boris Johnson ordered nation to stay at home and closed schools. Prime Minister said restrictions would last until at least mid-February.