No 10 has been pleased with the reception of the Budget but Conservative MPs remain concerned about their electoral prospects - whenever polling day comes
which Rishi Sunak hopes will help kickstart the Conservatives’ stuttering campaign for a fifth term in office was delivered in the Commons bearpit, the Prime Minister was back among his own tribe.
Work on the Chancellor’s fiscal package – possibly the last before polling day, unless he slips in an Autumn Statement shortly before an October or November election – had been going on for months, but even the heftiest measures were not finalised until last week. Tory strategists are also anxious to point out that Labour appears to be backing every individual measure contained in the Budget – one claimed: “They can’t say we are maxing out the credit card when they are backing all our policies.”
“Apparently campaign managers have been told that their contracts will be extended, because they were due to expire in June, a month after an election,” he said.
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