Already under fire, U.K. leader Liz Truss defends first month in office
Only after 10 days of economic turmoil and under intense pressure from her party did Truss reverse course, announcing Monday that she would abandon the most controversial element of her economic plan: a proposal to scrap the top rate of income tax.. But divisions within the Conservative Party remain, as the conference proceedings this week have made clear.
The Conservatives have “lost the perception as them being the economically competent party — it’s as simple as that,” Curtis said.published Tuesday night showed the opposition Labour Party leading the Conservatives by 38 points in the “red wall” areas in northern England that swung behind Conservatives in the 2019 election.“What this shift in the polls shows is that the British electorate is increasingly volatile. It’s decreasingly aligned to party attachment.
halfway through his term in office, following a number of scandals, even though he led his party to a whopping majority in 2019.
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