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Thatcher or Trump – the big choice awaiting the Right

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Just days in to the Johnson Premiership and there should be little doubt where we are heading. Dominic Cummings may revel in his contempt for Westminster Village groupthink, but this time the Prime Minister’s special adviser might have to admit we’ve got him right. The Vote Leave band is back together and whilst lead singer Johnson basks in the limelight, Cummings is setting the tempo. And his drumbeat seems fixed to the unmistakable rhythm of a general election campaign.

It is not too hard either to discern the strategy Cummings will unfurl. If the election is a second referendum in all but name, then the Brexit campaign will be very much a Vote Leave redux. The Prime Minister has already set the tone with eye-catching spending promises targeted at so-called ‘left behind’ towns and a reinvigoration of the Osborne-era Northern Powerhouse agenda.

As with the infamous NHS bus pledge the goal here is to neutralise all angles of attack. The Tories have already seen the rank unpopularity of austerity derail one ‘back Brexit’ snap election – no such chances will be taken this time. Thus it will not, one suspects, be an easy few months for the party’s remaining fiscal conservatives.






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