Rishi Sunak has covered thousands of miles in the past few weeks, but he hasn't outrun the expectation that his time as Britain's prime minister is in its final hours.
A woman holds her voting card as she arrives to vote in London in local elections, Thursday, May 2, 2024. U.K. voters are set to cast ballots in a national election on July 4, passing judgment on 14 years of … — Rishi Sunak has covered thousands of miles in the past few weeks, but he hasn’t outrun the expectation that his time as Britain’s prime minister is in its final hours.
“People can see that we have turned a corner,” said the Conservative leader, who has been in office since October 2022. “It has been a difficult few years, but undeniably things are in a better place now than they were.” “The country is looking for fresh ideas, moving away from a government that’s exhausted and divided,” Beattie said. “So
It has all made it harder for Sunak to shake off the taint of political chaos and mismanagement that’s gathered around the Conservatives since Johnson and his staff held lockdown-breaching partie s during the COVID-19 pandemic. The centrist Liberal Democrats and environmentalist Green Party also want to sweep up disaffected voters from the bigger parties.“I don’t know who’s for me as a working person,” said Michelle Bird, a port worker in Southampton on England’s south coast who was undecided about whether to vote“I still live at home. I would love to be able to have my own place, but the way things are going it’s just not on the cards,” he said.
“And secondly, a sense of mistrust in politics because of so many promises having been made over the last 14 years which weren’t carried through,” he told broadcaster ITV on Tuesday. “We have to reach in and turn that around.”
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