The Rottweiler of the red wall, former coal miner, speaks his mind, likes what he says and says what he likes. And how much is it gonna cost? And I think at that point Rishi Sunak's gonna find it very hard to resist.
Yeah, there was one poll this week, I think, which showed that if there was an election tomorrow, the Tories would end up with fewer seats than the SNP in the next parliament. So probably per department, we're looking at about £50mn. Now Hannah, do these shake-ups ever actually work? On the Liz Truss side of things, you have to say that Rishi Sunak is showing that key leadership skill of being lucky in your opponents, because her return to the political frontline was so extraordinarily tin-eared, so lacking in any rhetoric which would broaden her appeal, that actually people were moving to distance themselves from even those who actually agree with her cause, which at the core is a call for the Conservatives to cut taxes and fast. So she was keen to try and stress her mandate because she wants to point out to the wider Tory party and to Tory MPs that she was elected by the membership, which of course Sunak was not. The rump of the business department is being combined with the trade department. Famously, Tony Blair came up with a department, which was I think is Product Energy and Industrial Strategy, which Alan Johnston, the secretary of State, detected, might be reduced down to PENIS. Sunak and the backseat former PMs | Financial Times. So I think the threat is in ideological terms rather than a leadership challenge, though there is a non-zero chance of that too. It's changing an electronic logo. The survey takes around 10 minutes to complete and if you fill it out, you'll have the chance to win a pair of Bose QuietComfort earbuds. Is it wise to make them 18 months after an election? Welcome to Payne's Politics, your essential insider guide to Westminster from the Financial Times with me, George Parker, in the hot seat vacated by Sebastian Payne, for the next few weeks before the pod is relaunched with a great new format. In this week's episode, we'll be reflecting on Rishi Sunak's predicament in having to deal with advice from both Liz Truss and Boris Johnson, two very high-profile backseat drivers. What do you think this tells us about Rishi Sunak's political judgments?
So to help us understand, we're running a survey you can find online at There's also a link in our show notes. And do you think he's starting to regret it already? And his great hero, of course, is Winston Churchill. And the only something else they've got is a sudden splurge of tax cuts. So this idea of being a voice in the wilderness, calling other people appeasers for not, you know, making enough military intervention, you can see those echoes that he's trying to play on. I cannot see him being interested and I can't see him being any good at it, actually. Go back and see the other crossword clues for New York Times September 17 2022. Well, as I said, I think the principal thing that could go wrong is if they don't cohere with each other. Slide behind a speaker maybe crossword. Truss has a message that might appeal to his backbenchers but is completely incapable of delivering it. I'm joined by Greg Clark, the former Tory business secretary, and Hannah White, director of the Institute for Government.
This week, Liz Truss reflected on her short and calamitous time as prime minister. It was a very different sort of conservatism. And do you think we're starting to see the start of a Tory leadership contest to lead the party after it's lost the next election? Because at the moment her chapter in the history books is not only uniquely short but also ridiculous.
It will be because of the chaos of the whole of this government, of which he has been a part. Slide behind a speaker maybe crosswords. What I mean is, first of all, there are forces within the government itself and the wider institutional structure that have a given point of view, which isn't necessarily the point of view of the elected government. It would have been unfortunate [chuckles]. They're going to speak up. The possibility he might look for another constituency to fight, taking up painting of cows.
And I've not heard the words industrial strategy come out of the mouth of Rishi Sunak. And I think those people who have criticised him for maybe some of his other decisions, looking as though they might be very sort of focused in the short term, can't have their cake and eat it by also saying actually these long-term decisions, you shouldn't be making those either. But actually I proved it. And actually when it comes to business and trade, there is a good sense in bringing them together. Oh, they're all over the place, aren't they? I mean, I think it's really important, as Greg has been saying, that you have the apparatus behind you in Whitehall to push forward the things that you feel are priorities. So Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a historic address to MPs in Westminster Hall this week, and as part of his speech, the Ukrainian leader handed the speaker of the House of Commons the Ukrainian air force pilot's helmet, a helmet scribbled with a pointed message.
And having the right set of departments to give the focus individually is important. Robert, how much of a threat is Boris Johnson, do you think, to Rishi Sunak? With regard to Dominic Raab, as people have seen from how I've acted in the past, when I'm presented with conclusive independent findings that someone in my government has not acted with the integrity or standards that I would expect of them, I won't hesitate to take swift and decisive action. It should be geared to the purpose. Of course, she wasn't elected by the British public as prime minister. That's all he wants. I think unless the prize is really big, you know, would he really go for it? So why did Raab stay in place? Slight change of subject: the appointment of Lee Anderson as the deputy Conservative party chair. BEIS, the business department, is no longer with us. Well, it depends what you are trying to get them to achieve. Barring one or two exceptions like the Treasury and the Foreign Office and most departments, there is an organisational device to implement and design public policy.
Actually, we had two different buildings that we brought together, and certainly, during my first few days it was very important that the Department of Energy and Climate Change was not being abolished. So what it really shows is the pressure on him to deliver some sign of progress in the next four or five months, which isn't easy. So I think it's a clear underlining of priorities and it's right to give them the focus and the cabinet clout that comes with that. I think that last point is definitely true. And the words industrial strategy have been lost to the Whitehall nomenclature. We all need to work together to do this. Do you think that's a bad thing? And so he's picked Lee And — I must have, I think there were better choices. I thought it was magnificent. He has created four new departments, as you say.
And then we'll be looking at one of the biggest shake-ups of Whitehall in recent times, which saw Sunak bury the concepts of industrial strategy as he tried to bring a new focus on science, energy security and innovation. And you've always got to be careful about the acronym of your new department. We have culture and media, which is what's left of the old DCMS, once you take the large digital part out of it and give it to that science department. But the other sense of strategy that was very important to us was a sense that a strategy integrates different policies, perhaps from different departments, to make sure that they certainly don't conflict with each other and ideally should pull together. That's one of the aspects that I do regret that's no longer there.
Now, Greg Clark, are you sad to see your old department being broken up? And Greg Clark, you said you were in a reorganised department. So in terms of Whitehall, this is a big shake-up and it will cause quite a lot of disruption. But I think we shouldn't be too protective of particular government departments. And then she did a filmed interview, again trying to justify her time in Number 10 and also to try to argue that she was representing the true Conservative path — low tax, deregulation, small state, these principles that she and so many on the Tory backbenches would like Rishi Sunak to sort of have a Damascene moment and rediscover as the way, the truth and the light, you know. And she even seemed to indicate that making this argument for very low taxes and deregulation would be difficult to make to the country at large. And I was reminded of Blair having John Prescott as his deputy to show that there was a sort of true Old Labour element to the government post-1997 and that big win that looked so modern. I think in a sense you can't necessarily see the Liz Truss intervention as a second leadership bid. It is undeniable that there will be a period of disruption and distraction, not least because across Whitehall we have different HR systems, different IT systems, lots of things you would have thought would have been made universal across Whitehall a long time ago, just haven't been.
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