Going for Broke
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Going for Broke

The Rise of Rishi Sunak

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Going for Broke

The Rise of Rishi Sunak

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Three years ago, Rishi Sunak was an unknown junior minister in the Department of Local Government. By the age of thirty-nine, he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, grappling with the gravest economic crisis in modern history. Michael Ashcroft's new book charts Sunak's ascent from his parents' Southampton pharmacy to Oxford University, the City of London, Silicon Valley – and the top of British politics. It is the tale of a super-bright and hard-grafting son of immigrant parents who marries an Indian heiress and makes a fortune of his own; a polished urban southerner who wins over the voters of rural North Yorkshire – and a cautious, fiscally conservative financier who becomes the biggest-spending Chancellor in history. Sunak was unexpectedly promoted to the Treasury's top job in February 2020, with a brief to spread investment and opportunity as part of Boris Johnson's 'levelling up' agenda. Within weeks, the coronavirus had sent Britain into lockdown, with thousands of firms in peril and millions of jobs on the line. As health workers battled to save lives, it was down to Sunak to save livelihoods. This is the story of how he tore up the rulebook and went for broke.

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Publisher
Biteback Publishing
Year
2020
ISBN
9781785906381
Topic
Politics & International Relations
Subtopic
Political Biographies
Index
Politics & International Relations

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Author’s Royalties
  4. Preface
  5. Chapter 1: French Cricket
  6. Chapter 2: Teenage Kicks
  7. Chapter 3: The Airport Test
  8. Chapter 4: Silicon Romance
  9. Chapter 5: No Tamasha
  10. Chapter 6: The Leap
  11. Chapter 7: Blue Wellies
  12. Chapter 8: Jedi Knights
  13. Chapter 9: Milk and the Seychelles
  14. Chapter 10: Greasy Pole
  15. Chapter 11: Keen Bean
  16. Chapter 12: Team BoJo
  17. Chapter 13: Sterling Effort
  18. Chapter 14: Rishi’s Red Wall
  19. Chapter 15: Baby Chino
  20. Chapter 16: Trillion-Pound Trade-Up
  21. Chapter 17: A Bigger Bazooka
  22. Chapter 18: Santa or Scrooge?
  23. Chapter 19: Lockdown Showdown
  24. Chapter 20: Captain Sensible
  25. Chapter 21: Rebuilding
  26. Chapter 22: Brand Rishi
  27. Epilogue
  28. Index
  29. Plates
  30. Also By Michael Ashcroft
  31. Copyright