Hunt's comments on the economy pull back the curtain on the bigger strategic problem the Sunak government has created for itself - its ability to deliver on its five pledges.
After Liz Truss's mini budget rocked the markets she sacked Kwasi Kwarteng as Chancellor and reversed the measures that got her into trouble, herself then succumbing to the men in grey suits days later and things calmed down.
Government borrowing is set to rise relentlessly after Chancellor Jeremy Hunt chose to keep spending taps open and delay Whitehall budget squeezes until after the next election. Meanwhile many Tories are still demanding a tax bonanza giveaway ahead of that election. What does Tory economic policy look like any more?
Privately allies admit this contradiction is real given the current economic climate, just at a time when they're struggling to convince people they will meet two other promises; to reduce NHS waiting lists, and stop the boats . Just one more major headache, on top of several others, in a month that has seen the political wind change decisively.the disastrous Tory local election results
In large parts of the parliamentary party that hope appears to have evaporated, disappearing at close of polls on May 4, as optimism dissolved and a toxic torpor set in, as they were forced to confront a set of results which, if replicated, would see Sunak ejected from No10 with ease by Labour next year.
In the week that saw net migration breach 600,000, a new record, Tory MPs found it painful to watch Keir Starmer outflank them with a promise to end current rules allowing companies to pay migrant labour just 80 per cent of the usual rate for a job in certain"shortage occupations". At the same time Tories watched as Sunak junked their own 2019 manifesto pledge to lower overall migration.A listlessness can be detected all over the Westminster postcode.
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