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Rishi Sunak reacts during a visit to an apprentice training centre at the Manufacturing Technology Centre on March 18, 2024 in Coventry.Sunak is expected to get some better news when the latest inflation figures are released tomorrow, with experts tipping another fall.
But on Radio Four’s Today programme this morning, Scarlett Maguire of polling company JL Partners, said the PM is unlikely to enjoy any political benefit from that because, unlike him, most people still feel worse off. “There is actually a danger for Rishi Sunak, if the economy improves and he’s increasingly getting up on a podium, if he’s doing TV interviews, he’s talking to people and saying ‘the economy’s getting better, you’ve got to stick with us, you’ve got to give us credit’, the public will be even more likely to say get lost.
“One thing he in particular is prone to, and this is where the fact that people see him as out of touch and too rich really to be prime minister is particularly relevant, is there’s a sense sometimes that people feel he’s gaslighting them, telling people to be grateful for an economy that they’re not feeling the benefit of.“They run the risk of that if they then try and go into an election campaign with a message of a very positive economy if people aren’t actually feeling it yet.
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