Fear and loathing on the Tory trail - Tortoise

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : In 1979, when Thatcher became PM her principal tasks were to rejuvenate the economy; tame the unions; and put Britain's shoulder to the wheel in the global struggle against Soviet communism.
55% :Is it just me, or do you get the feeling that he wants to be identified as a Thatcherite?All this frantic ideological ancestor worship is, of course, the consequence of Sunak's fear that his hostility to unfunded tax cuts has made him vulnerable (absurdly) to the charge of socialism.
55% : In contrast, it is true, Truss is much more relaxed about borrowing to pay for reducing taxation.
54% : As Sunak knows only too well, it required massive government intervention, emergency regulation of everything and a sudden (and incomplete) reassessment of the nature of the state.
53% : For what it is worth, I think Sunak's fiscal conservatism is closer to Thatcher's core beliefs, and that she would have shared his caution about the possible inflationary consequences of sudden tax cuts in the present economic context.
50% : In yesterday's Sunday Telegraph, the former chancellor wrote that he funded the Rwanda scheme because "it is the right one" - and that he has a ten-point plan to pump even more populist testosterone into border control.
50% : In 2022, a quite different political landscape will face the new occupant of Number 10: one in which globalisation presents pathologies as well as opportunities; in which longevity is transforming the scale and nature of health and social care; in which technology is pulverising every human assumption and mutating at a rate with which government is struggling badly to keep up; in which the climate emergency has yet to be truly acknowledged as the existential species threat that it is; in which the two poles of the Cold War have been replaced by an infinitely more complex geopolitical map, in which asymmetric and cyber warfare require as much prime ministerial attention as the shifting tectonic relations between the world's superpowers; and in which populism and social media have displaced statesmanship and deliberation.

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