The hot favorite is Liz Truss, the foreign minister, where a direct job exchange seems to provide a relatively painless solution to the problem. However, although she is a party favorite, with intentions of mandatory tax cuts, she is far from being loved by many fellow MPs, among whom she is widely regarded as a light and fake Brexiteer. The nakedness of her ambition and self-promotion is also considered inappropriate. By the way, there is a lot of half-heartedness in these views, but this is politics for you. At least it would reduce taxes. Other possibilities are Kwasi Kwarteng, the Minister of Business, and Nadhim Zahawi, the Minister of Education, both Johnson loyalists, and perhaps less vulnerable to the Treasury arrest by some. But neither of them is obviously qualified for the position, and as for Sajid Javid, the Minister of Health, it would seem very strange to give him a second chance at the helm, having already been forced to leave once because he did not make the offer. of his master. He is also obviously guilty of the same unfamiliar “sin” as Sunak’s wife. The long shot would be Jeremy Hunt, the archetypal safe pair of hands, but as Remainer standing against Johnson in the leadership fight, it may still be too early to welcome him back into the barn. In any case, this very lack of credible alternatives may be Sunak’s best chance of survival. It’s still unfair how the Budget Office’s forecast for the biggest drop in living standards since the archives began upgrading its own ρών 9bn tax cuts to the spring declaration, but what did it expect? The OBR could, I suppose, have escaped the Chancellor’s blues, not writing it so bluntly, leaving it to others to draw their own conclusions, but if that’s the numbers, then it’s part of the OBR’s purpose to point it out . The OBR was deliberately created to tell the truth to the authorities.
