“Difficult decisions are to come,” warns the new British Prime Minister.
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The continuous purring of helicopters above Westminster, the ballet of the Rovers Rangers between Downing Street and Buckingham Palace, that of the ministers, smile to the ears or dark face depending on whether they were promoted or dryly thanked … C ‘was the day of award of powers and training of the Rishi Sunak government, Tuesday, October 25, in London. The reshuffles are generally expeditious in the United Kingdom. This time, moreover, the third conservative Prime Minister in less than three months has little time to convince the financial and British markets that they can count on an operational government after the chaos of the Johnson years and the Druss week disaster.
“The work begins immediately,” warned Rishi Sunak, during his first leader speech, just after his first hearing with King Charles III. The country faces “a deep economic crisis” and “difficult decisions are to come,” warned the manager. An austerity plan could be confirmed on October 31. The ex-Chancellor of the Echiquier de Boris Johnson, 42, promised to “repair the errors” of Liz Truss, who turned the financial markets with his massive and unlikely tax cuts, and to restore “the Professionalism, integrity and responsibility “at Downing Street – A direct criticism of the management of Boris Johnson, pushed to resign in July because of a series of scandals.
The national media and the experts all agree: Rishi Sunak has a mountain to climb to restore calm in an almost permanent mutiny conservative party, and reassure the British, confronted with two -digit inflation (10, 1 % in September), to energy bills and highlighting real estate. First pledges of seriousness and stability: there will be no fifth chancellor of the Echiquier in four months. Jeremy Hunt is kept at the post that he has only occupied for ten days, having replaced at the raised foot a faithful of Liz Truss, Kwasi Kwarteng, co-architect of the minibudget having panicked the financial markets. Mr. Hunt, a former health minister of Theresa May, has already managed to reassure investors, and it is he who is working on the future austerity program, baptized “Halloween budget” by the media.
Loyalty rewarded
Rishi Sunak has also chosen to keep Ben Wallace, a relative of Boris Johnson, Minister of Defense since 2019, and James Cleverly, Foreign Minister of Liz Truss. One way of indicating that he intends to maintain the same line with unconditional support in Ukraine. Mr. Sunak, however, has still promised nothing about the defense budget: Boris Johnson and Liz Truss were committed to bringing him to 3 % of the country’s gross domestic product.
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