Rishi Sunak will find it hard to please Conservative MPs and the ‘blue wall’ voters

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Many new Tory voters want higher spending to fix underfunded public services – but the party old guard are playing a familar tax-cutting tune, writes Ben Chapman

on 11 March. Chief among them is how to square his previously professed faith in low taxes and free markets with the demands of the Conservative Party’s new voters in what was once Labour’s red wall – which has since turned blue in December’s election.

 

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steviweavi Surely they just need to stop being negative and believe in him a bit more and everything will be just hunky dory?

Any chancellor would not just this one

He's young. Seems smart. Think he might have some promise.

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