Rishi Sunak, who has served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2022 to 2024, has taken on higher advisory roles in Microsoft and Anthropic, Guardian’s reports.
Letters From the Office of the Advisory Counseling Committee of Parliament (ACOBA), he revealed that Sunak’s appointments have revealed concerns that the privileged information of the former conservative prime minister could “give Microsoft an unfair advantage”.
Sunak has some story with Microsoft, which has several active contracts with the British government. In 2023, he presented a deal with Microsoft to invest in new data centers and training of £ 2.5 billion
Acoba too famous That “there is a logical concern that your appointment could seem to provide unfair access and influence to the UK government … Given the ongoing debate on how to better regulate AI and at a time of intense discussion and pressure on the world about what should be.”
Sunak said he would clearly direct the UK policy advice, remain in the prospects of a high level of macroeconomic and geopolitical trends and avoids pressure. He said he would divert his salary to Richmond’s work, a charity founded with his wife earlier this year.
The former prime minister also serves as a senior adviser to the Goldman Sachs investment bank and a speech author for businesses such as Bain Capital and Makena Capital.
Sunak is not the first British politician to take on the roles by helping Silicon Valley’s technological giants to navigate government affairs. Sunak’s Senior Political Advisor, Liam Booth-Smith, is also in Anthropic’s payroll. And former Deputy Prime Minister of Liberal Democratic Democratic Nick Clegg served as president of Meta’s global affairs until January 2025.
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In the United States, the rotating door between Silicon Valley and the US government is always active. At Meta, Clegg was replaced by Joel Kaplan, former deputy chief of his staff George W. Bush, and Dustin Carmack, former adviser to Florida Governor Ron Desantis, joined the company’s political team in 2024.
