Rishi Sunak’s hopes of united front flounder with MPs and even ministers challenging policy and jockeying for position
First published on Sun 1 Oct 2023 21.11 CESTsaw attempts at a united front collapse into rival groups battling over tax, culture wars and the fight to be the next Tory leader.
Sunak was also coming under increasing pressure to commit to reduce tax before the election, something No 10 wants to do, but approaches with extreme caution given the fiscal repercussions of Liz Truss’s unfunded tax cuts. The chancellor will pledge new changes to the benefit sanction system in his speech on Monday, as the government attempts to make savings on its welfare bill. He will also announce a move to an £11 an hour living wage.
Labour accused Truss of reviving the same fantasy economics that crashed the economy just 12 months ago”, and called for Sunak to repudiate her ideas. Before the conference, Kemi Badenoch, the business secretary, and Suella Braverman, the home secretary, used newspaper interviews to reiterate their calls for the UK to leave the European convention on human rights – once again something that is not government policy.
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