The lack of new ideas on key issues – the NHS, environment, education and cost of living – could become Sunak’s biggest weakness at the polls
Rishi Sunak, right, and the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, at the state opening of parliament on Tuesday. Sunak is desperately seeking popular policies that Labour will not back.Rishi Sunak, right, and the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, at the state opening of parliament on Tuesday. Sunak is desperately seeking popular policies that Labour will not back.Rishi Sunak does not have long to persuade the public he is a better option than Keir Starmer to run the country.
What is perhaps most telling about the legislative programme is that there is very little attention paid to some of the issues that voters care about the most: an absence of measures to help the NHS beyond the smoking ban, nothing concrete on education, little on the environment except for a long delayed animal welfare bill, no improvements to employment rights, nor any direct measures to address the cost of living crisis.
His policies at the Conservative party conference did not have broad consumer appeal – a smoking ban, future A-level changes and scrapping HS2 – leading to backbench grumbling that Sunak’s preoccupation with narrow issues was creating a missed opportunity to win back support.
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