Former British prime minister Rishi Sunak will return to Goldman Sachs in an advisory role, the Wall Street bank said on Tuesday, taking a new post a year after he led the Conservatives to a crushing electoral defeat.

Former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has joined Goldman Sachs as a senior advisor. Sunak, who resigned as PM in July 2024, will work part-time advising the bank's clients with his "unique perspectives and insights" on global politics and the economy, the company said. He remains the Conservative MP for Richmond and Northallerton in Yorkshire.

As Rishi Sunak prepared to return to Goldman Sachs, where he began his career, X users did what they do best: added a dash of humour, asking if he was ready for the 70-hour workweek quota, an idea famously backed by his father-in-law,