Abandoning Housing targets – Sunak’s election losing mistake?
This could bite him during the general election campaign. Make no mistake the subject of housing is very important to large sections of the population and for the government to have abandoned its policy is very dangerous indeed. What makes this even more damaging to the Tories is the reason Sunak has given for the change MIKE SMITHSON
Will Liz Truss ever be able to live this down?
Her short period at Number 10 saw one of the most disastrous runs on the pound ever which had a huge impact on the country’s finances. A question now is whether this has totally ended the political ambitions of Liz Truss or will she be treated seriously again. .I think she’s finished Mike Smithson
Did Trump fundraise from his election lies?
The Washington Post is reporting that federal prosecutors probing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol have sought a wide range of Trump documents related to fundraising after the 2020 election,. They are seeking to determine if Trump or his advisers scammed donors by using false claims. about voter fraud to raise money, This comes on top of the criminal charges he is facing in New York and as well as likely action in the state of Georgia….
Liz Truss attempts to be relevant
Criminal defendant Trump takes a tumble in the polls.
If this polling has it right then just a quarter of American adults now a favourable view of Donald Trump and this really puts into question whether he has any chance at all of making a comeback. The images that have been widely circulated of his court appearance before Easter have been dreadful and even large parts of his base are struggling to go on backing their man. Yet WH2024 betting punters appear not to have noticed and he’s still…
And you will fix this how, exactly?
Criminal justice, especially for sexual offences against women and girls, is much in the news lately. See Labour’s ad accusing the Prime Minister of being soft on child abusers, remarkable since Sunak has been PM less than 6 months, not enough time for a sex abuse case to be investigated let alone go to trial. Not to be outdone, during his election campaign, Scotland’s new First Minister, promised to uphold women’s rights. He showed how much he meant it by…
The strike by doctors is a huge challenge for Sunak
Several of the papers this morning lead off on a strike by junior doctors – something that takes us into uncharted territory. Quite where this is going is hard to say and my sense is that the doctors will have a fair bit of public support the fall back on. Whatever as the Guardian points out we are getting a closer to the general election and we are only a few weeks away from the May local elections which could…