Sunak at 10

Name: Sunak at 10
Author: Anthony Seldon
ISBN: 9781805462187

Anthony Seldon

Atlantic Publishing Group

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'The leading authority on our contemporary prime ministers' Dominic Grieve, GuardianThe 2024 General Election was the Conservatives' worst ever defeat: their lowest vote share in modern history and smallest parliamentary contingent since 1832. As Boris Johnson's crumbling majority turned to rubble and Nigel Farage's Reform marched into the vacuum, a question hung over British politics that would once have seemedabsurd: is this the end of the Tories as an independent force?From inheriting Liz Truss's collapsed premiership - the pound in freefall, the bond markets and Conservative Partyin revolt - through the domestic battles over the Rwanda Asylum Plan and the agenda-dominating wars in Ukraine and Gaza, to the crushing 2023 local elections, Sunak's time in Downing Street was one of unrelenting turbulence and hard choices. Could a more naturally political or commanding leader have steadied the ship?Was Sunak ultimately sunk by the chaos he inherited, or by his own ill-fated...