The chancellor's upcoming Budget will have a significant impact on the political landscape leading up to the general election. With the Conservative party trailing in the polls, many MPs believe that the party is heading for opposition regardless of the Budget's contents.
With the prime minister sitting just behind him on the government frontbench, the chancellor will then deliver a Budget which will make the political, as well as the economic, weather for the months leading up to the general election .
It is not overstating things to suggest that the contents of Hunt’s red box will determine whether or not theSixteen months since becoming prime minister, Sunak finds his party in roughly the same place in which he found it - trailing Labour by around 20 points in the polls. The Conservatives are running out of time, and the Budget is one of the few remaining opportunities they have to shift the political dial. Many Conservative MPs, however, already believe that the game is up, the party is heading for opposition and there is nothing the chancellor can announce to change that fundamental truth. “I don’t think he can do anything now to change the game because the game cannot be changed,” one gloomy former Tory minister told HuffPost U
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