The Prime Minister has cherry-picked around a dozen of his predecessor's growth plans, despite criticising her 'mistakes'
Mr Sunak’s plans to loosen regulations around planning, housebuilding and childcare as well as overhauling immigration rules have all appear to have been taken from the plans set out byThe criticism comes nearly a year since Ms Truss comfortably defeated Mr Sunak in the Tory leadership election, sparking the most remarkable and chaotic 50 days in British political history, culminating in her resignation and replacement by the very man she vanquished.
“Liz had a very clear agenda for getting the economy growing again and was clearly derided by many within the commentariat and indeed from some of her fellow MPs at the time,” the source said. “If you are only starting some of her growth ideas now there won’t be enough time by the election. Housing and planning changes take years to happen so the idea there will be green shoots by the time the next election comes around is highly unlikely.”rules – known as nutrient neutrality regulations – that was a key reform earmarked by the Truss administration to unblock planning approvals for new houses.
These included proposals to increase the availability of wraparound care in schools, more cash for schools to provide such care and plans to stimulate the growth of childminder agencies; the latter of which Mr Sunak pushed ahead with only to land himself in trouble for benefitting his wife’s investment in childminder company, Koru Kids.
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