The former chancellor talks to GB News’ Camilla Tominey about the Budget.
The task of changing public opinion falls to the wider conservative movement – to pressure groups, think-tanks, columnists, and associated auxiliaries. The trouble is that, at the moment, most of the people in those categories are training their fire on the Conservative Party.
The former Chancellor says Sunak should ‘suppress a bit of ego’ and ask Johnson to come back.
‘He and the Prime Minister say they are low tax Conservatives, but at some point before the election they have got to show that.’
Claire Coutinho is clearly impressive, but has only been an MP since 2019, and the appointment of someone so inexperienced to so big a role comes with risks.
if you look at the odds for the next Conservative leader, there are no white men among the front runners. The top five comprise Kemi Badenoch, Penny Mordaunt, James Cleverly, Suella Braverman and Gillian Keegan.
Looking back at her seven short weeks has reminded me that she was not unlucky, or ill-advised, or a victim of an establishment stitch-up, but the author of her own misfortune.
The Sunday papers brought the news that Jeremy Hunt was to “postpone” the penny cut to income tax that had formed the centre-piece of Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget.
Kwasi Kwarteng arrived back from Washington on the morning of the 14th of October to discover he had been sacked.
Simon Case and James Bowler – the new Treasury Permanent Secretary – warned Liz Truss that she needed to U-turn on plans to cut corporation tax in order to restore Britain’s market credibility and avoid being treated “like a third-world country”.
Liz Truss told PMQs that she was “not planning public spending reductions”. Kwasi Kwarteng travelled to Washington.
As Liz Truss and Michelle Donelan posed with the successful Lionesses, Kwasi Kwarteng brought forward his new “debt-cutting plan” to October the 31st
The Sunday papers brought reports that Liz Truss was “expected to cave into pressure from her Cabinet” to increase welfare benefits in line with inflation at a Tuesday meeting.
Kwasi Kwarteng was informed by the Office for Budget Responsibility that the mini-Budget of Liz Truss and himself had produced a £72 billion hole in the public finances.
Liz Truss travelled to Prague for the inaugural gathering of Emmanuel Macron’s European Political Community.