The PM’s allies think he can model himself on the victor of the 1992 election
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak eats Christmas dinner with troops at the Tapa Military base, in Tapa, Estonia
Liz Truss then managed to make Johnson’s era look like a model of calm. Once the Kwasi Kwarteng mini-Budget unleashedhas seen for a generation, it’s no wonder that the Tories opted for stolid stability in the shape of Rishi Sunak. Only this month, when asked to define “Sunakism”, the PM sounded very much like the former boy from Brixton. “What people want and deserve is peace of mind,” Sunak declared. That’s not a million miles from Major 30 years ago, talking about building “a country that is at ease with itself”.and the uncanny thing was just how similar were the issues to those facing Sunak this year.
That’s why Keir Starmer has his own lessons to learn from 1992. Defining yourself against the Left of your party isn’t enough when the Tories hammer home messages about Labour “tax bombshells”.him to “war game” the 1992 election Even though the economy later bounced back strongly, the mortgage misery felt by millions tainted the Tories indelibly in voters’ minds. Sunak in 2024 faces the double disadvantage of his party being associated with another shock economic event Just as importantly, Tony Blair won his landslide off the back of a huge spike in NHS waiting lists and Sunak’s current Covid backlog makes that look like a picnic. The demographic timebomb of an ageing population is more acute.
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