4 h. ago Rishi Sunak and wife Akshata Murty launch new charity to improve numeracy across UK

The venture, which has been named The Richmond Project after the area of North Yorkshire where they live, will support creative ways of tackling numeracy problems.

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6 h. ago Sunak and wife Murty unveil new charity focused on tackling numeracy problems

The venture has been named The Richmond Project after the area of North Yorkshire where former prime minister Rishi Sunak and Akshata Murty live.

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24 h. ago Ungovernable by Simon Hart review: A tale of brothels, backbiting, and Conservative politics

The revelations are out from Simon Hart’s book: The Political Diaries of a Chief Whip. There’s the one about being woken at 4am by an MP who was being held in a Bayswater brothel by blackmailers, not to be confused with another MP, Mark Menzies, who found it difficult to extricate himself from “bad people” and allegedly paid for his release from local party funds (which he denied); then there was Rishi Sunak’s observation about the female minister promoted to the Cabinet who was “f***ing useless but we can’t get rid of her” — which may or may not have been Kemi Badenoch. There was Boris Johnson’s attempt to kill off a disobliging report by the Privileges Committee on his lockdown activities which did not, by that time, shock Hart.

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27 h. ago Government departures during first year of prime ministers’ time in office

Rishi Sunak lost eight members of his government during his first 12 months as prime minister.

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28 h. ago Now is the perfect time to discover India’s most underrated city

The region is where Rishi Sunak married local girl Akshata Murty

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63 h. ago Keir Starmer signals his determination to tackle prostate cancer after Rishi Sunak challenged PM to take action

Keir Starmer has signalled his determination to tackle prostate cancer after Rishi Sunak challenged him to take action.

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65 h. ago More than 30 photojournalists shortlisted for photographer of the year awards

The UK Picture Editors’ Guild awards night will be held on April 1 at Church House in Westminster, central London.

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4 d. ago Rishi Sunak ‘honoured’ to become prostate cancer charity ambassador

The former prime minister will support Prostate Cancer Research’s campaign to introduce a national screening programme for high-risk men.

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4 d. ago RISHI SUNAK: Too many men are still 'dying of embarrassment' over prostate cancer. That's why I'm calling for health chiefs to launch a national screening programme

Every year, around 12,000 men die from prostate cancer. That is even higher than the number of deaths from breast cancer. But we could prevent many of these deaths by catching the disease earlier.

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5 d. ago Rishi Sunak 'bodied' by football commentator with absolutely savage put

Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was 'bodied' by Match of the Day commentator Jonathan Pearce with a cheeky comment about Southampton's fortunes

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6 d. ago Can a brown Hindu be English? English people say yes. Why do so many on the right say no? | Kenan Malik

An argument about Rishi Sunak’s identity reveals how ideas of ethnicity and race have become conflated‘They think they’re English because they’re born here. That means if a dog’s born in a stable it’s a horse.” That was a staple of the comedian Bernard Manning’s routine back in the 1970s. Enoch Powell had, a decade earlier, expressed the same sentiment in more refined language: “The West Indian or Asian does not, by being born in England, become an Englishman. In law he becomes a United Kingdom citizen by birth; in fact he is a West Indian or an Asian still.”Few today would laugh along with Manning or take seriously the claim that only white people can be English. Britain has transformed over the past half-century and most English people now embrace Ian Wright and Idris Elba as being as English as David Beckham or Joanna Lumley. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Orgies, fights and ‘KGB agents’ in brothels: Most explosive claims from Tory chief whip’s new book

Simon Hart’s new book makes several eye-opening claims about the final days of Tory rule

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