- 304 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
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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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Author’s Royalties
- Preface
- Chapter 1: French Cricket
- Chapter 2: Teenage Kicks
- Chapter 3: The Airport Test
- Chapter 4: Silicon Romance
- Chapter 5: No Tamasha
- Chapter 6: The Leap
- Chapter 7: Blue Wellies
- Chapter 8: Jedi Knights
- Chapter 9: Milk and the Seychelles
- Chapter 10: Greasy Pole
- Chapter 11: Keen Bean
- Chapter 12: Team BoJo
- Chapter 13: Sterling Effort
- Chapter 14: Rishi’s Red Wall
- Chapter 15: Baby Chino
- Chapter 16: Trillion-Pound Trade-Up
- Chapter 17: A Bigger Bazooka
- Chapter 18: Santa or Scrooge?
- Chapter 19: Lockdown Showdown
- Chapter 20: Captain Sensible
- Chapter 21: Rebuilding
- Chapter 22: Brand Rishi
- Epilogue
- Index
- Plates
- Also By Michael Ashcroft
- Copyright
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