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Opinion | Rishi Sunak: For Whom Everything That Could Go Wrong, Went Wrong
Sunak has said he will remain an MP and he has denied suggestions that he's planning to move to California, where the family has a home. But his time at the highest echelons of British politics is almost over.
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Opinion | Rishi Sunak: Up The Creek Without A Paddle
Now and again the political tide turns so decisively against an incumbent government that there's little the ruling party can do. It happened a decade ago with the Congress in India, and today, it's UK's Rishi Sunak staring at a crushing wipeout.
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Opinion: "Smile, Rishi!" Yelled Photographers After New PM's First Speech
Rishi Sunak's first speech as Prime Minister was notable for what it didn't say as much as what it did.
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Opinion: Rishi Sunak's Second Chance - by Andrew Whitehead
But India should not imagine that a 'desi' in Downing Street will do them any favours. He will be Britain's Prime Minister, not India's.
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Opinion: Boris Johnson's Unexpectedly Massive Win
Boris Johnson's election gamble has paid off. What he wanted above all was a comfortable majority in parliament - and that he now has. Which means it's just about certain that Johnson will now lead Britain out of the European Union, as he has repeatedly promised, by the end of next month.
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Opinion: What Rahul Gandhi Said To LSE Students - By Andrew Whitehead
Rahul Gandhi chose a meeting with Indian students in London to deliver a clarion call for change in the Congress party, placing blame on its old guard for the 2014 election debacle.
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Opinion: Why Theresa May Got It All So Terribly Wrong
Britain's election has delivered a topsy-turvy verdict. The result is straight out of Alice in Wonderland. The winner has lost; and the loser has won.
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Opinion: As Britain Votes This Week, Is It The End Of Theresa May?
Mrs May has failed to take on board the lesson which her predecessor, David Cameron, learnt the hard way in last year's Europe referendum: never take Britain's voters for granted.
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Opinion: What Westminster Attack Shows About London Police And MPs
The shock in London at yesterday's attack is profound. The loss of life is grievous, and the mowing down of foreign students and visitors as they crossed one of London's most renowned bridges adds to the sense of bewilderment and anger. But it is the target which has caused greatest alarm. An attack on the Houses of Parliament is also an assault on the way that Britai...
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Opinion: In Chennai, Sasikala Is Viscerally Unpopular
There is a deep anger about the degrading of Tamil political life, where personality trumps policy and the pursuit of power (and personal wealth) blots out serious discussion of how to govern better. And this is more than simply the standard middle-class disdain for "vulgar" politics.
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Opinion: As Theresa May Meets Trump, India Should Watch Closely
India is more comfortable with the US and the UK than with its principal regional rival. It could be in India's interest, paradoxically, to shore up the west in this quiet competition for global primacy.
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Opinion: Nigel Farage's Exit And Political Assassinations After Brexit
Surveying the body-strewn battlefield of British politics, Nigel Farage may well - as you read this - be propping up a pub bar somewhere, with a glass of best bitter, smiling broadly at his handiwork.
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Opinion: Why And How Brexit Happened. And Why Cameron Can't Stay On.
London may have to devolve decision-making to the English regions, which resent the capital's affluence andnearstranglehold on political power. And politicians will have to start listening to the people they represent rather than lecturing at them.
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Opinion: Priti Patel's Growing Profile In The UK - Why This Is Her Moment
As the daughter of migrants, it is at first glance surprising that she is a staunch supporter of the "Brexit" campaign, which is making a lot of noise about the need to cut sharply the numbers entering the UK.
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Opinion: Map Of Kashmir Creates New Pak-India Stress Point - But It Shouldn't
Maps should be matters of reference, and just as you would never think of rerouting a river or moving a mountain because its presence is inconvenient, there's no good reason why maps reflect political aspiration rather than reality.
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Opinion: London's Obama Moment: A Muslim Mayor
After an ill-tempered campaign, with allegations of Islamic extremism flung around like political confetti, Londoners have elected Sadiq Khan, a 45-year-old lawyer, as their new Mayor. He was the Labour party's candidate in a city which tends to lean to the left. And he won comfortably.
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Opinion: Will Keep Your Gold Safe, Candidates For London Mayor Assure Indians
"Let me tell Sikhs, Hindus, Tamils," the Labour party candidate Sadiq Khan declared at a hustings in central London recently, "your gold will be safe if I am your mayor".
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Opinion: London Point Of View: Give Back Kohinoor? Fat Chance!
So - sorry! This outsize diamond will be staying where it is. Set in a royal crown, and on display to the millions of tourists (not many Brits bother to go there these days) who troop around the Tower of London.
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Opinion: What Mehbooba In Charge Means For Kashmiri Women
Among the many challenges Mehbooba Mufti faces as Chief Minister is to ease the male dominance of state politics, so that women can achieve more prominence - even those who don't come from Kashmir's dynasties.
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Opinion: Why Tata Steel Means So Much To David Cameron
Saving the steel industry is currently Prime Minister David Cameron's Number One priority.
