It's Boris Johnson's path or Rishi Sunak's way: the Tories can't have both | John Harris

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : He went on: "I am conscious as I say all this that it sounds like a prodigious amount of government intervention.
52% : It sounds like a New Deal - and all I can say is that if so, then that is how it is meant to sound and to be, because that is what the times demand."
52% : The UK's deep inequalities and imbalances have made it vulnerable to both economic shocks and political turnabouts, as proved by the crash of 2008 and what eventually followed it: most notably, the vote for Brexit, and the way the restlessness and resentment behind it led to Johnson's seismic victory in 2019.
51% : As the Financial Times columnist Robert Shrimsley wrote last week, in a sentence that could have described any number of Tory budgets going back decades: "The ambition, shared by both prime minister and chancellor, is to rein in spending and borrowing now so that they can cut income tax before the election.

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