Their MPs stood down in their droves. Some have even gone on holiday. Why does it feel like the Conservatives have already given up on this election? Because they have - and they’re already preparing for the next one.
Every action Rishi Sunak has taken over the last two weeks is longtermist.He calls an election for July - just before inflation is expected to nudge up slightly. That will be the first attack line against a new government."They’ve only been in a month and the economy is already struggling."Then small boat crossings surge over a period of hot weather. And since Labour will have scrapped the Rwanda plan, something they describe as ‘inhumane', Sunak and co can blame them for it.
If there’s renewed aggression from Russia or another rogue state, the state of the armed forces will come into question.It doesn’t matter that the Conservatives presided over a 14 year period in which the size of the army dropped from 190,000 to 126,000.What matters is that Sunak ‘had a plan’ to fix this: National Service. And he’s got a history of positioning himself as a Cassandra-like figure. During his futile leadership debates with Liz Truss, he warned that her plans would crash the pound.
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