A benefits U-turn won't help Liz Truss, but it could save the Tories' reputation ✍️ There is simply no political space for Truss to heedlessly barrel on with her plan 🔵 Martha_Gill for ipaperviews
Britain’s Prime Minister Liz Truss on the third day of the annual Conservative Party Conference – Liz Truss’s government looks to be approaching its second.refused to rule out increasing them in line with wages rather than inflation – a move which would squeeze the poorest while potentially saving the government £5bn. Rather unsurprisingly,would not endear them to a country about to suffer one of its most difficult winters in memory.
A reverse-ferret does not look unlikely. A sizeable bunch of ministers have warned Truss that pushing ahead would be “madness”, with the minister charged with making the decision on benefits, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Chloe Smith, issuing a veiled warning against targeting them as a way of raising money. Truss has said rebels won’t be disciplined.
Yet this is not what the public tends to think about politicians changing their minds. Voters are more sympathetic. Afound just 30 per cent of respondents thought U-turns were wholly negative, while to some 42 per cent they suggested a government which was willing to listen to people and adapt to new situations – and unwilling to be reckless. Older voters in particular were especially keen on U-turners, 58 per cent of the over 65s found them reassuringly responsive.
There is an argument, too, that when it comes to a package of policies as unpopular as those in the mini-budget and the public spending cuts expected to followoptics like this become a negligible concern. Mortgage rate rises and shrinking benefits – policies that affect wallets directly – have the power to grab the attention of even the least political among us .
In fact Truss’s credibility is in any case all but gone – that was evident in the response to the mini-budget, rather than to any U-turns that might take place in coming weeks. It will be hard to claw back. , in the face of spooked markets, rebelling ministers and a mutinous public. It is now all about damage control.
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