LONDON: Frustrated at his inability to get a clear message across to British voters, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called an election on Wednesday (May 22) from a position of weakness. Sunak, 44, heads into the election far behind the opposition
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks during a meeting with the Chancellor of Austria, Karl Nehammer, at Federal Chancellery Ballhausplatz, during a visit to Austria on May 21, 2024. LONDON: Frustrated at his inability to get a clear message across to British voters, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called an election on Wednesday from a position of weakness.in opinion polls and increasingly dependent on a small team of advisers to steer him through what is set to be an ugly campaign.
One Conservative insider said he had become increasingly distant."His team often just leave him alone in his office, he likes to have his own time," they said, on condition of anonymity."His default is to tell people they're just wrong - his advisers and MPs alike." Many of his manifesto commitments were drawn up by Boris Johnson, whose departure as prime minister in 2022 left the Conservative Party deeply divided and lurching to the right.
When he replaced Truss after her chaotic 49 days in power in the autumn of 2022, he faced what some politicians said was the most difficult economic and political inheritance of any prime minister since World War Two. Britain's youngest leader in modern times wanted to focus on delivery before the election, but some of his party colleagues say an obsession with detail often hampered quick decision-making.
Some critics say his vast personal wealth and elite, expensive education means he cannot relate to the problems faced by many people in Britain.
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