Sunakism

English

Etymology

From Sunak +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuːnækɪzəm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

Sunakism (uncountable)

1. (UK politics) The political philosophy associated with Rishi Sunak (born 1980), British Conservative politician and Prime Minister from 2022 to 2024.
   • 2020 December 19, Katy Balls, Fraser Nelson, “‘It’s not morally right to keep borrowing at these levels’: Rishi Sunak’s plan to fix the UK economy”, in The Spectator‎^[1]:

     This is Sunakism: a belief that it’s suicidal for any government to depend on high borrowing and low interest rates, because those rates could surge at any time.

   • 2021 October 27, Heather Stewart, “Johnsonism wins budget battle but will Sunakism win the war?”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     But for the time being, it feels as though Johnsonism – with its infrastructure spending and red wall handouts – is winning out over whatever Sunakism might turn out to be.