U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has told his Conservative Party he's not afraid to make tough decisions for long-term change.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and wife Akshata Murty wave after his speech at the Conservative Party annual conference at Manchester Central convention complex in Manchester, England, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. on Wednesday promised skeptical voters, and his own Conservative Party, that he would make tough choices to"fundamentally change our country.”
Some Conservatives said the decision was a bad move — and doing it at a conference in Manchester was disastrous. Its cost was estimated at 33 billion pounds in 2011, but has soared to more than 100 billion pounds by some estimates. The Manchester-Leeds leg was lopped off by the Conservative government in 2021, and the high-speed line will now end at Birmingham, 100 miles from London, rather than farther north in Manchester.
Along with commitments to train more doctors and overhaul secondary education, Sunak said he wanted to introduce a gradual ban on smoking, by raising the legal age to buy cigarettes “by one year, every year.” Sunak repeated his pledge to “stop the boats” of migrants trying to reach Britain across the English Channel, which involves a contentious plan to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda that is being challenged in the courts.
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