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That was a decent enough speech by Sunak, and he was clearly the choice the party should have gone with first time around. If the Tories had skipped the two months of the Truss disaster and gone straight for Sunak, they'd be in a much better place right now.
Labour might have a fight on its hands at least (which is a good thing, there should always be more than one team on the pitch), but whichever way you slice it there's a massive hole in the budget thanks to the Truss/Kwarteng self-immolation, and if he goes down the austerity route (which all signs point to), that becomes a very hard sell after twelve years of Tory rule, they can't blame Labour, and it'll be a bit much coming from a bloke worth nearly a billion quid.
Also no acknowledgement of the elephant in the room (remaining outside the Single Market and Customs Union).
For my money he's the best the Tories have at the moment, so they (eventually) got to the correct leader.
Labour might have a fight on its hands at least (which is a good thing, there should always be more than one team on the pitch), but whichever way you slice it there's a massive hole in the budget thanks to the Truss/Kwarteng self-immolation, and if he goes down the austerity route (which all signs point to), that becomes a very hard sell after twelve years of Tory rule, they can't blame Labour, and it'll be a bit much coming from a bloke worth nearly a billion quid.
Also no acknowledgement of the elephant in the room (remaining outside the Single Market and Customs Union).
For my money he's the best the Tories have at the moment, so they (eventually) got to the correct leader.