British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak plans to tell his Conservative Party he's not afraid to make tough decisions for long-term change.
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But he’s struggling to set the agenda and one of his big decisions has already overshadowed the conference and split the party. News has leaked that he plans to scrap much of an ambitious but overbudget high-speed railway line that was planned to link London and Manchester.Rishi Sunak needs to rally his flagging Conservatives.
Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, a member of the opposition Labour Party, said the decision sends the message that “we can’t do big and difficult things anymore, and I don’t think it reflects well on Britain.”Axing the rail line has some supporters. Jack Brereton, a Conservative lawmaker from the Midlands, said HS2 is vastly overbudget and has already been cut back so much that it will do little to help the north.
“We’ve had 30 years of a political system which incentivizes the easy decision, not the right one – 30 years of vested interests standing in the way of change,” Sunak plans to say, according to his office. Opinion polls suggest voters are weary of the Conservatives and their turmoil, putting the left-of-center opposition Labour Party 15 to 20 points ahead.to appeal to the party’s authoritarian, law-and-order wing, advocating tougher curbs on migration and a war on human rights protections and “woke” social values.
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