Marketing campaign Replace: Liz’s 2009 Insurance policies Beneath Fireplace, Coke-Addict Rishi Kinds Out Enamel
Good Friday morning. There are 15 days left of this management race. It’s now been 43 days because the battle to switch Boris started.
At present’s announcement:
- Earlier than you begin rioting, claiming Guido’s now instructed you in two marketing campaign updates in a row Liz gained’t be placing out any extra insurance policies, you possibly can all relax.
- Liz does have an announcement out at this time, nevertheless fortunately it’s only a re-emphasis of earlier insurance policies framed round tonight’s huge husting in Manchester, entitled “Liz Truss units out imaginative and prescient for North West”.
- It mentions all of the classics: levelling up, rising the financial system, slicing taxes and delivering freedom.
- Liz reiterates her guarantees of Northern Powerhouse Rail, new Funding Zones and extra vocational coaching, within the type of ‘Voxbridge’ – two model new vocational establishments within the North of England.
- The press launch comes alongside a renewed voice of assist from Jake Berry, who guarantees members Liz will sort out regional inequality “in a Conservative manner”.
Beneath fireplace:
- Tonight Liz Truss is below fireplace from the left over a report from Tom Newton Dunn – clearly not over his confrontation with Liz on the Darlington husting – that she co-authored a report in 2009 that, amongst different issues, known as for:
- A ten% minimize to medical doctors’ pay
- GP appointment charging
- Axing the Royal Navy’s two then-new plane carriers
- Truss’s marketing campaign says “co-authoring a doc doesn’t imply somebody helps each proposal put ahead”.
- Queue Damian McBride digging up proof that she “lead promotion of the report in The Spectator and Conservative Dwelling”.
- Angela Rayner says the report “exhibits [Liz’s] true colors. She is out of contact and out of step with the general public.”
- Spare a thought for The i’s Paul Waugh who revealed all of this again in January this yr, to no avail. Guido will let Paul and Tom battle this one out…
In different information:
- Prime Truss supporter James Cleverly proved the voice of the individuals yesterday when he instructed LBC he’d be “very, very joyful” if this groundhog day contest may very well be “wrapped up faster”.
- One other ballot gave Liz a 32-point lead.
- Guido’s resumed MP backer checklist exhibits Liz persevering with to carry a newly-achieved lead over Rishi, together with her on 152 backers, Rishi on 126 and 77 MPs undeclared.
At present’s new coverage:
- At present Rishi pledges to, brace your self, “restore NHS dentistry” and enhance the nation’s enamel
- Rishi’s five-point plan, which Guido expects all co-conspirators to brush up on, is as follows:
- Shift the main focus to early years prevention with a pilot on dental professionals visiting faculties for test ups.
- Ring-fence NHS dentistry funding.
- Reform contracts to maintain NHS dentists within the NHS, and liberate time for dentists on the frontline to allow them to concentrate on their day jobs.
- Sure, it’s a three-point plan divided up later within the press launch into 5 separate factors. You’ll be able to sink your enamel into additional particulars right here.
- A courageous coverage providing from a confessed coke addict with seven fillings.
In different information:
- Rishi continues to make a hash of his McDonald’s expertise, after Guido first caught him out pretend posing for a contactless card joke on Instagram; then stating his This Morning confession of his go-to order being the breakfast wrap is flawed given they haven’t served them since March 2020. #WrapGate is just not but trending, attempt as we’d…
- Final night time Group Rishi introduced a way more essential coverage than his dentistry flimflam: that McDonald’s ought to #BringBackTheWrap.
#BringBackTheWrap https://t.co/K4yTWts6vF
— Prepared 4 Rishi (@Ready4Rishi) August 18, 2022
- Rishi has an op-ed in The Telegraph directed at farmers, writing “We should defend our greatest agricultural land from photo voltaic farms”
Bookies Odds (Earlier in Brackets):
- Liz Truss 1/50 (1/16)
- Rishi Sunak 10/1 (13/2)