Meanwhile, Conservative local association chairs tell i the former chancellor is gaining momentum among members in the South.
It may have been the game-changing error Rishi Sunak’s campaign were looking for, with Liz Truss’s policy of cutting public sector pay outside London “going down like a bucket of cold sick” in both the North and the South, creating “real danger” for the frontrunner.
So Ms Truss’s hastily abandoned suggestion that she would cut the pay of doctors, nurses and teachers outside London was seized upon by Mr Sunak’s supporters, who claimed it was going down equally badly in both the North and South – a potentially lethal combination for the Foreign Secretary.they believed Mr Sunak’s increasingly member-focused campaign was gaining momentum.
“If you’re in the Cotswolds or Cambridgeshire or Cornwall you have exactly the same problems in terms of trying to get recruitment for schools, teachers and nurses.“If you try to get a house in Cambridgshire you can’t – people there working in research can’t get a house, property has gone throught the f***ing roof.
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