All to Play for: The Advance of Rishi Sunak

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.