Truss To Deliver Brexiteer Big Bang?
Truss To Deliver Brexiteer Big Bang?
A Liz Truss Government would have the chance to be radical.
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One of the striking things about the Conservative leadership race has been the way in which so many Brexiteers have weighed in behind Remain-voting Liz Truss rather than Rishi Sunak.
The rumours of what a Truss-led Government could look like are certainly very interesting. The latest gossip is that it could see the promotion of an almost all-Brexiteer top team.
A Truss Government according to The Sun could line-up with: Kwasi Kwarteng as Chancellor, Iain Duncan Smith as Chief Whip, Suella Braverman as Home Secretary and Kemi Badenoch as Education Secretary.
That would amount to the sort of drastic shake-up that is badly needed for a Conservative rejuvenation required to get back on track.
Liz Truss has pledged that it ‘won’t be business as usual’ with her in charge. The promotion of Badenoch and Braverman alone could have a massive positive impact.
Both are among the most popular choices now when it comes to who Conservative supporters want to see in the Cabinet.
Badenoch has railed against the far-left drivel that some are trying to indoctrinate school kids with.
Meanwhile Braverman’s call for Britain to exit the ECHR and stop the illegal migration crisis was refreshingly honest and direct.
It does seem that Truss realises she has just a few short years - at most - to make a radical change and deliver Conservative policies before the next General Election. This big Cabinet refresh would be a very good start.
Sunak Far Behind
It does seem increasingly likely that Rishi Sunak is facing defeat - potentially quite a big one - in this leadership contest.
Conservative Home’s latest poll of Tory members has a huge Truss lead of 58-26.
Whilst he does seem quite a nice chap, I think Sunak has slightly blown it on policy.
Many Conservatives angry with the way in which Boris Johnson was forced to resign already resent Sunak.
His one hope of turning things around was (is?) a radical policy offering.
If he had pledged to immediately end the increasingly unpopular BBC Licence Fee, cut net migration to tens of thousands, commit to new grammar schools across the country, leave ECHR and abandon Net Zero dogma then I suspect the contest would be quite a bit closer.
Instead his well-polished campaign has come across as decidedly lacklustre and it would now be a huge upset if he was to become the next Prime Minister.
Labour Defeat
One of Rishi Sunak’s arguments is that he is best-placed to defeat Labour at the next election. That is looking increasingly untrue.
In fact Redfield and Wilton have Liz Truss leading Keir Starmer again, this time by 2 points, whilst Sunak trails the Labour Leader by some 7 points.
A bombshell YouGov poll also recently found Labour with only a single point lead over the Conservatives.
Given this is a mid-term Conservative Government, the huge Tory infighting we have seen, the resignation of a PM and a leadership election ongoing, that is pretty terrible for Starmer’s Labour Party.
If the next Conservative Leader can come in with momentum, unify their party and actually deliver on policy, then perhaps it will be the bland and uninspiring Keir Starmer who is soon the Party Leader most under pressure.