Rishi Sunak became the first Indian-origin Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after Liz Truss announced her resignation on October 20, unleashing yet another. 25.10.2022, Sputnik International
After Boris Johnson agreed to step down, many candidates are in the fray. Sunak, particularly, is seen as a top contender. He has been in the news for not only his policies during the pandemic but also the infamous “Partygate” scandal that eventually led to a crisis in the Johnson government.
last thought, i actually think that perhaps any of the detail of yesterday is just going to be completely swamped actually by the sort of roar of inflation coming in at the rate that it might do. the tricky thing then is, if you re in the treasury, you think, you funded a tax cut and it does not really, it cost you money, but it does not really get you anywhere politically. and you have given away what might have been your big election giveaway, so you already promised that income tax cut in the elections, so what are you going to promise next? voters do notjust go, oh, thank you so much for what you have already promised me, it is what is next, what is next? and of course, don t forget, rishi sunak has got a next door neighbour who is quite fond of getting him to write big checks for big projects, the grand ideas. and there is a philosophical difference now, it would appear. so, a rishi sunak budget
and there are going to be people in the tory party who might quietly have a little bit of schadenfreude, might be quite happy that sort of rishi sunak image might have taken a little bit of a knock. maybe even some people in number 10. because it was a rishi sunak budget, this was not a borisjohnson budget and we are in relationship, probably a more traditional numberio numberii relationship, where number 11 does not share everything it does not have to do with number 10. that old idea that dominic cummings had that there would be this great, you know, joint team, a nerve centre of government. sajid javid packing it in as chancellor and rishi sunak coming in. exactly, we are not in that world. you know, there is a number 10 world view and there is a number 11 world view and they do not alwaysjoin up. they are very different characters in so many different ways. and that, to an extent, kind of, what matters to so many people now is the bills they are facing, politics is secondary to t
of getting him to write big checks for big projects, the grand ideas. and there is a philosophical difference now, it would appear. so, a rishi sunak budget and there are going to be people in the tory party who might quietly have a little bit of schadenfreude, might be quite happy that sort of rishi sunak image might have taken a little bit of a knock. maybe even some people in number 10. because it was a rishi sunak budget, this was not a borisjohnson budget and we are in relationship, probably a more traditional number io numberii relationship, where number 11 does not share everything it does not have to do with number 10. that old idea that dominic cummings had that there would be this great, you know, joint team, a nerve centre of government. sajid javid packing it in as chancellor and rishi sunak coming in. exactly, we are not in that world.