All to Play For: The Advance of Rishi Sunak - Softcover

Ashcroft, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785907964 ISBN 13: 9781785907968

Verlag: Biteback Publishing, 2024

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The speed of Rishi Sunak's advance to 10
Downing Street is without precedent in modern British politics. In the middle
of 2019, he was an unknown junior minister; seven months later, he became
Chancellor of the Exchequer; and by October 2022, he had secured the highest
office in the land. Aged forty-two, he was Britain's youngest Prime Minister
for more than 200 years. He was also the fifth person to occupy the post since
2016.

Michael Ashcroft's carefully researched
biography - first published in 2020 and now fully revised and updated - charts
Sunak's ascent from his parents' Southampton pharmacy to the University of
Oxford, the City of London, Silicon Valley and Westminster before assuming the
most powerful job in the country in chaotic circumstances.

It is the story of a clever and hard-working
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; a fiscally conservative financier who becomes the biggest-spending
Chancellor in history; and a fastidious political operator tasked with fixing
the nation's problems and reuniting the Conservative Party while grappling with
an economy in a state of flux.

Casting new light on Sunak's tense working
relationship with his predecessor, Boris Johnson, All to Play For shows
what makes the Prime Minister tick ahead of a general election whose outcome
will have profound consequences for Britain's future.

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LORD ASHCROFT KCMG PC
is an international businessman, philanthropist, author and pollster. He is a
former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party and currently honorary
chairman of the International Democrat Union. He is founder and chairman of the
board of trustees of Crimestoppers, vice-patron of the Intelligence Corps
Museum, chairman of the trustees of Ashcroft Technology Academy, a senior
fellow of the International Strategic Studies Association, a life governor of
the Royal Humane Society, a former chancellor of Anglia Ruskin University and a
former trustee of Imperial War Museums. Lord Ashcroft is an award-winning
author who has written twenty-six other books, largely on politics and bravery.
His political books include biographies of David Cameron, Jacob Rees-Mogg,
Rishi Sunak, Sir Keir Starmer and Carrie Johnson. His seven books on gallantry
in the Heroes series include two on the Victoria Cross.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Biteback Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1785907964
• ISBN 13: 9781785907968
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496
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