'He’s too busy pouring tea and feeding scones to Jill Biden, why doesn’t he get back and do the day job?' 🔴 Senior Tories urge the PM to get a grip on his government’s key agenda after the Chancellor admitted the target to halve inflation may not be met
After the Bank of England raised interest rates for the 12th consecutive time, to 4.5 per cent, on Thursday, the Chancellor warned that there “has never been anything automatic about hitting” the target to halve inflation this year, despite forecasts that it will be met.: “So far we’ve seen spin and pledges and all this stuff, and scones with Jill Biden and all that nonsense, the mask is slipping.
An ex-Cabinet minister suggested that Mr Sunak had embraced an aggressive approach to social issues to compensate for the failure to cutThey said: “They’re scared of being called social democrats so they’ve brought in a lot of socially conservative policies, while keeping their left-wing economic policies. But that’s not what people want, they want proper Conservative economics, the free market.
Growth was just 0.1 per cent for the first quarter of this year, and in March the economy contracted by 0.3 per cent, fuelled by poor motoring and retail sales, affected by bad weather.
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