New Rishi Sunak guide by Lord Ashcroft to raise lid on tensions with Boris Johnson

A brand new guide on Rishi Sunak guarantees to disclose behind-the-scenes particulars about tensions with Boris Johnson.

An up to date model of Tory peer Lord Ashcroft’s biography, titled All To Play For: The Advance of Rishi Sunak, is about to be revealed by Biteback Publishing subsequent month.

The guide was first launched in 2020 when Mr Sunak was Chancellor below the title Going for Broke: The Rise of Rishi Sunak.

It charts his rise from an unknown junior minister in mid-2019 to the Treasury after which No 10.

Mr Sunak grew to become Britain’s youngest PM in additional than 200 years when he entered Downing Street final October.

A brand new press launch describes Mr Sunak’s rise as “without precedent” as he took on probably the most highly effective job within the nation in “chaotic circumstances”.

The guide guarantees to solid “new light” on Mr Sunak’s “tense working relationship” along with his former boss.

Mr Sunak was broadly blamed by allies of Mr Johnson for his downfall after he was the second in an avalanche of ministers to stop final summer season.

In his resignation letter, Mr Sunak mentioned his strategy to the financial system was “fundamentally too different” to that of Mr Johnson, who was compelled out of No 10 quickly after.

The guide by the businessman and pollster – which is launched on September 29 – additionally explores Mr Sunak’s time at Oxford University, the City of London and Silicon Valley.

The press launch mentioned: “It is the story of a clever and hard-working son of immigrant parents who marries an heiress and makes a fortune of his own; a polished southerner who wins over the voters of North Yorkshire; a fiscal conservative who becomes the biggest-spending Chancellor in history; and a fastidious political operator tasked with reuniting the Conservative Party and repairing an economy in flux.

“Casting new gentle on Sunak’s tense working relationship along with his predecessor, Boris Johnson, All to Play For exhibits what makes him tick forward of a normal election whose final result can have profound penalties for Britain.”

Lord Ashcroft, a former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, has written 26 different books together with biographies on Sir Jacob Rees Mogg, Sir Keir Starmer and Carrie Johnson.