Rishi Sunak: is the chancellor’s long political honeymoon coming to an end?

There’s grumbling that, as a former banker and the son-in-law of a billionaire, Sunak is flashy and out of touch

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Is Rishi Sunak’s long political honeymoon coming to an end, asked Rowena Mason in The Guardian. For the past 18 months, the Chancellor has been riding high in the opinion polls, thanks to the generous furlough scheme and to his carefully curated public image. “He is serious, smooth and sleek, a teetotal family man”, who presents an “obvious counterpoint” to Boris Johnson. But “doubts are beginning to creep in” on the right of the Conservative party, following a “big tax-and-spend budget” more redolent of Gordon Brown than Margaret Thatcher.

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