Anthony Seldon - Sunak at 10

The July 2024 general election was a disaster for the Conservative Party.

After almost 15 years in power, the Tories suffered their worst-ever defeat.

And at the helm was Rishi Sunak, the former chancellor, best known for his furlough and Eat Out to Help Out schemes during Covid.Sunak lasted two years as prime minister - a lot longer than his predecessor, Liz Truss, who was in Number 10 for a mere 49 days.

Sunak's first job was to calm the markets, before wrestling with energy and cost-of-living crises, not to mention wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

And then there was the Rwanda asylum plan ...

No surprise, perhaps, that his election defeat was so emphatic.

But how did it all go wrong so quickly, following Boris Johnson's record victory in 2019?To make sense of such turbulent times requires a calm, erudite head.

Step forward Sir Anthony Seldon, educator, writer and historian, who has written more than 50 books of recent history, including definitive accounts of every prime minister since John Major.

In Sunak at 10, Seldon draws on his unique access and impeccable sources to write about Sunak's premiership.

He is, as the Guardian says, "the leading authority on our contemporary prime ministers."