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Rishi Sunak employed as a senior adviser by Microsoft – however given stern warning

By Editorial Board Published October 10, 2025 3 Min Read
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Rishi Sunak employed as a senior adviser by Microsoft – however given stern warning

Former PM Rishi Sunak has been employed by tech big Microsoft.

The ex-Tory chief, who stays an MP in parliament, has joined the Seattle-based tech agency as a paid part-time senior adviser and can give the corporate “high-level strategic perspectives on macro-economic and geopolitical trends” in addition to how these “intersect with innovation, regulation and digital transformation”.

He might be donating his wage to his and his spouse, Akshata Murty’s, numeracy abilities charity, The Richmond Challenge.

Acoba, the watchdog that assesses exterior jobs for MPs, has mentioned Sunak is not going to be advising on UK coverage issues.

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The Advisory Committee on Enterprise Appointments has previously been accused of being toothless and unable to stop MPs from taking employment that might trigger a battle of curiosity, or permit former parliamentarians to make use of contacts made in authorities for private use.

Sunak was prime minister between October 2022 and July 2024.

It was thought he could possibly be eyeing a job in Silicon Valley, California, after his normal election defeat.

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However in his last prime minister’s questions look as Conservative chief, Sunak vowed to spend extra time “in the greatest place on Earth”, referring to his Richmond and Northallerton constituency.

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He added: “If anyone needs me, I will be in Yorkshire.”

Acoba has warned Sunak that he should not present recommendation to or on behalf of Microsoft on authorities work or its contracts till later subsequent yr.

The previous chancellor has additionally been requested to not foyer the federal government or make use of his Whitehall contacts throughout that point, and to restrict his work to “providing advice on strategy, macro-economic and geopolitical matters that do not conflict” together with his actions in Quantity 10.

The Cupboard Workplace informed the watchdog that Sunak’s yr on the Tory backbenches “will have helped to diminish the salience and currency of the information” he had entry to.

Sunak has additionally taken on a job at San Francisco-based Anthropic, which developed the Claude synthetic intelligence (AI) fashions.

He has additionally turn into a senior adviser to Goldman Sachs since leaving workplace, the place he beforehand labored between 2001 and 2004.

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