Editorial: A leadership contest that fails to confront the truth about Johnson’s legacy will not produce a worthy prime minister
Treasury rules is a matter of studied vagueness. The consensus is that it will come from a “smaller state”, meaning reduced departmental budgets.will be helped by a renewed assault on public services, which are still depleted after the last round of austerity.
by 2050, perhaps because a powerful faction of rightwing backbenchers agitates for that goal to be abandoned. The same clique ensures that none of the leadership contenders dares to speak in favour of a more functional, collaborative relationship with the EU. A shift in that direction, easing tensions over the Northern Ireland protocol and restoring trust with Britain’s closest trading partners and allies, would obviously serve the country’s diplomatic and financial interests.
This displacement expresses the intellectual exhaustion of a party that has been in power for too long and the moral debilitation of MPs who spent the past three years in loyal service of a man who has now been discharged as comprehensively unfit for high office. There is altogether too much continuity from the Johnson regime in this contest, and not enough repudiation.
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