The issues that Truss is having haven’t been helped by Starmer having a superb convention and searching more and more just like the PM in ready. Labour and its chief are on the up and the Tories shifting down – one thing that CON MPs in marginal seats will solely be too conscious of.
The best way her authorities’s financial plans have gone down like a lead balloon have solely added to the challenges that Truss and her largely inexperienced cupboard are having to face. What the Chancellor introduced in his finances isn’t happening nicely and you may see a good variety of Tory MPs being reluctant to again the get together because it goes via the parliamentary course of.
This wasn’t an official finances and was introduced in the best way it was to cease the Workplace of Price range Duty from having its views made public. This , as I perceive it, implies that the Home of Lord will likely be much less constrained in what it could do.
I simply wonder if she may face a confidence vote. You don’t get the impression that her and her Chancellor’s strategy are getting a lot help at Westminster. Any Commons votes that go in opposition to her will likely be very damaging.
Mike Smithson
