Conservative MPs have attacked Boris Johnson's handling of the coronavirus crisis ahead of their return to Westminster on Tuesday.
"What I think is essential, as parliament comes back this week, is that the government gets back on to the levelling up agenda, the agenda of spreading prosperity."
It comes as a poll by Opinium shows Labour now level-pegging with the Conservatives at 40% in the voting intention poll. One Conservative peer said the poll changes were not dramatic or dire, but that the mishandling of issues like education was causing a"steady deterioration"."New MPs normally take about two years at least to turn on the person who got them elected… and the absence of conference and by-elections will help the government", he said.
A Council leader from a traditional Tory area also said fury over U-turns was an issue only for"the bubble" and that among the grassroots, the prime minister was still getting"a lot of the benefit of the doubt because of the pandemic". It comes amid renewed speculation about how ministers will pay for the financial fallout from the pandemic.Treasury sources dismissed newspaper reports that the chancellor was planning to raise capital gains tax and corporation tax as"random speculation".
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