‘We need something concrete to offer, and soon’: Tories desperate for Sunak to stand for something 🔴 While some Tories are claiming ‘boring is good at the moment’, others are asking what the PM really wants to achieve 🔎 Analysis RosaFPrince
Sunak’s opening moves on taking office were designed to steady the markets after the catastrophic effect of Truss and her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget.
After Truss’s dash for growth, Sunak thus far seems to be offering little more on the economic front than muddling through – stability without the strength, as his critics in Westminster have put it, a play on Theresa May’s election slogan of 2017. But on all three, he is hamstrung. Having seen Truss stung, he’s unlikely to make cutting taxes his lodestar any time soon. The cost of living and energy crises, not to mention his experience in creating the furlough scheme during Covid, means he will be wary of cutting too deeply into welfare or the safety net that is the NHS. And if Brexit was meant to deliver a kind of freewheeling, unfettered land of opportunity, Sunak for one doesn’t seem particularly keen to shout about it.
The current state of the Conservative Party suggests that, even if had he the inclination, and thus far there are few signs of this, Sunak’s room for manoeuvre is limited.
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