Opening his Budget statement, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, adopted an upbeat and optimistic tone, telling detractors the UK economy was “proving the doubters wrong” and proving more resilient than expected. After the turmoil and inflationary pressures of the last three years caused by Covid and the war in Ukraine – not to mention the infamous ‘mini-Budget’ of …
31/10/2022
Rishi Sunak – The Making of a PM
Pagoda’s public affairs account manager, Paul Murphie, takes a look at the new Prime Minister’s rise to power and predicts what a Sunak premiership might look like. On 5 September 2022, when Liz Truss was announced as the new leader of Conservative Party having defeated her opponent by a margin of 21,000 votes, Rishi Sunak seemed destined for the political …