Norman_Conquest
Well-known member
I see Sunak is stating we will be back to square one under Labour if we don't stick to his plan. Surely being on square one is got to be better than where this government has got us at the moment.
You know you are in trouble when you are stating that 'Brexit will be the great standing achievement of our time in office'.
Other things being equal, the change message is normally the most powerful one, and for a few weeks last autumn Rishi Sunak tried hard to make the case that he was the candidate best equipped to offer change. Leading a party in office for more than 13 years, it was a hard sell and eventually Sunak accepted that as an argument it was implausible. Today, after some low-key meetings last week, he is doing his first major campaign event of the year, a PM Connect Q&A with voters in the north-west of England. And, according to a quote released overnight, he will formally adopt message 2 as the Conservative party’s election theme. He will say:
The choice is whether we stick with the plan that is starting to deliver the long-term change our country needs, or go back to square one with the Labour party.
The problem for Sunak is that it is increasingly questionable whether this argument is credible either. “Stick with the plan that is starting to deliver,” he will say, but as Kiran Stacey reports, some of his MPs believe that the only honest campaign message is ‘we may be rubbish, but at least we’re not Labour’. As Kiran says, the Conservative MP Danny Kruger told Conservative party members at a private event last autumn:
The narrative that the public has now firmly adopted – that over 13 years things have got worse – is one we just have to acknowledge and admit.
Some things have been done right and well. The free school movement that Michael Gove oversaw, and universal credit – and Brexit, even though it was in the teeth of the Tory party hierarchy itself, and mismanaged – nevertheless Brexit will be the great standing achievement of our time in office.
These things are significant, but, overall I’m afraid, if we leave office next year, we would have left the country sadder, less united and less conservative than when we found it.
Kruger also said that the Conservatives were at risk of “obliteration” if they did not become more responsive to the needs of the electorate.
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You know you are in trouble when you are stating that 'Brexit will be the great standing achievement of our time in office'.
Stick with the plan delivering long-term change', Rishi Sunak to say to voters
Good morning. There are three types of campaign you can run during an election: ‘it’s time for a change’ (normally an opposition message, but a governing party can also campaign like this, as Boris Johnson did in 2019); ‘give us time to finish the job’ (the standard incumbent’s message); or (the last resort option) ‘you might not like us, but at least we’re not as bad as the other lot’.Other things being equal, the change message is normally the most powerful one, and for a few weeks last autumn Rishi Sunak tried hard to make the case that he was the candidate best equipped to offer change. Leading a party in office for more than 13 years, it was a hard sell and eventually Sunak accepted that as an argument it was implausible. Today, after some low-key meetings last week, he is doing his first major campaign event of the year, a PM Connect Q&A with voters in the north-west of England. And, according to a quote released overnight, he will formally adopt message 2 as the Conservative party’s election theme. He will say:
The choice is whether we stick with the plan that is starting to deliver the long-term change our country needs, or go back to square one with the Labour party.
The problem for Sunak is that it is increasingly questionable whether this argument is credible either. “Stick with the plan that is starting to deliver,” he will say, but as Kiran Stacey reports, some of his MPs believe that the only honest campaign message is ‘we may be rubbish, but at least we’re not Labour’. As Kiran says, the Conservative MP Danny Kruger told Conservative party members at a private event last autumn:
The narrative that the public has now firmly adopted – that over 13 years things have got worse – is one we just have to acknowledge and admit.
Some things have been done right and well. The free school movement that Michael Gove oversaw, and universal credit – and Brexit, even though it was in the teeth of the Tory party hierarchy itself, and mismanaged – nevertheless Brexit will be the great standing achievement of our time in office.
These things are significant, but, overall I’m afraid, if we leave office next year, we would have left the country sadder, less united and less conservative than when we found it.
Kruger also said that the Conservatives were at risk of “obliteration” if they did not become more responsive to the needs of the electorate.
Rishi Sunak says Britain would go ‘back to square one’ with Labour ahead of first major campaign event of year – UK politics live
Prime minister to speak in north-west of England as MP says Tories have to accept ‘we have left the country sadder and less united’
www.theguardian.com
