Is smooth Sunak’s honeymoon period coming to an end?
Rishi Sunak has spent 18 months in a honeymoon period as one of the UK’s youngest ever chancellors, riding high in public opinion mostly owing to a generous furlough scheme. He is serious, smooth and sleek, a teetotal family man – who makes an obvious counterpoint to Boris Johnson’s scruffy joviality.
But doubts are beginning to creep in on the right of the party following his big tax-and-spend budget that some felt more worthy of Gordon Brown than a supposed devotee of Margaret Thatcher and Nigel Lawson.
For Conservative MPs, many are frustrated that Sunak’s tensions with No 10 have not translated into a willingness to stand up to Johnson’s eagerness for public spending. Some are also irritated by Sunak’s constant polishing of his own brand,
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