Everyone thought Rishi Sunak would run to Silicon Valley when he lost the U.K. election. So what is he doing giving AI advice to CEOs in Birmingham, England?

There was a simple narrative about Rishi Sunak when he was defeated in the U.K. general election of 2024. The Stanford MBA graduate and former Goldman Sachs analyst would quit Parliament, leave the U.K. and hot-foot it to California for lucrative roles towards the top of some hyperscaler or other. Sunak kept insisting it wasn’t true, despite the fact he often wore regulation Silicon Valley white trainers. Few people believed him. 

Two years later, and Sunak has confounded the sceptics.