Sunak as PM? You better not wait until the chickens come home to roost | larry eliott
Rishi Sunak is the Chancellor of Covid. Few outside of Westminster had heard of him when he replaced Sajid Javid in office at the start of 2020, but since then he has spent two years in charge of the government's economic response to the pandemic. Now, as restrictions are lifted, he is the bookmakers' favorite to replace Boris Johnson if the prime minister is forced to resign over partygate. It's a meteoric rise.Since the Second World War, only three former Conservative chancellors have reached 10 Downing Street, and one of them, Winston Churchill, had left the Treasury more than a decade before the exceptional circumstances of 1940 gave him the job of prime minister. .Indeed, the list of post-war prime ministers Britain never had includes a long list of chancellors, both Conservativ...