The PM is treading the perilous path of indulging Suella Braverman and her allies on the Conservative hard right, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
The pretence got harder to sustain this week. Leading figures on the Tory right have mustered for a “
The text of her speech was cleared by Downing Street. That doesn’t mean it was welcome. But nor should it be assumed that Sunak stifles liberal qualms when issuing licences to bang the hard right drum. The prime minister is a social conservative by conviction, much more so than his recent predecessors.
Sunak’s economics are more typically Thatcherite. He hung an icon of Nigel Lawson in his office at the Treasury. The pandemic forced him to override those instincts, subsidising the nation’s wages through lockdowns, but bowing to expediency in a crisis didn’t dent the underlying faith.
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