Top Books to Understand Rishi Sunak

Michael Ashcroft's book dissects the rise of 'Dishy Rishi' from a Boris Johnson mentee to the British prime minister's office.

Ashcroft's second book on Conservative heavyweight is a biographical account of the former British prime minister. A few find it fanboyishly written, others call it an important record of history.

Ben Riley-Smith's book is an important account of Conservative Party during the tumultuous years of Brexit politics. Spoiler alert. The book makes a startling claim about alleged role of Infosys founder Narayan Murthy into Rishi Sunak's rise to power.

An intensely well-sourced and readable account of the last days of Boris Johnson, whose fall from power, and the subsequent turn of the Conservative party away from his agenda and approach, is such an important subplot of this election. Quite revelatory in terms of Rishi Sunak's political acumen.

Two Manchester university academics dissect the long road to the vote to leave the EU — along which demographic change and the rise of identity divides transform the landscape, all of it complicated by the breakdown in traditional voting patterns, coalition politics and the Scottish independence question.