The second biography of Rishi Sunak, authored by former Conservative Party deputy chairman and treasurer Lord Michael Ashcroft, is soon to be published. Going for Nothing: When Rishi was appointed by Boris Johnson as chancellor of the exchequer, The Rise of Rishi Sunak was published in November 2020. At the time, Ashcroft told me: “Rishi Sunak was one of the most powerful and influential people in a government confronting a national crisis, yet at the beginning of the year, barely anyone outside Westminster and Yorkshire had heard of him. I figured people would be curious to learn more about him and how he rose to such prominence so quickly.
