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Even as the current Prime Minister sought to paint a radical new vision of hard-headed decision making, he wasMr Sunak’s approach as outlined in his conference speech
“Clearly the public want change, but they’re not enamoured with Keir,” one backbencher said. “If Rishi can try and steal some of that then it’s game on. Although of course an uphill battle!” “I think there is an acceptance that she is not the best person to be selling these ideas,” an MP sympathetic to Ms Truss said. “The policies are popular and I think they continue to poll well, but when she is the one delivering them people stop listening. I say this as someone who is still friends with Liz, but I think we have got to the point where we have to move on.”
Another former minister, Priti Patel, had a prominent role on the fringe of the conference, using meetings and media interviews to hit out at various aspects of Government policy. One MP on the right of the party said she was “clearly just incredibly bitter” about her replacement by Suella Braverman, who has trashed her predecessor’s record in the Home Office.
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