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Interregnum - After Truss

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Is There a Tory Opposition to Cuts?

I can see no electoral space for a cuts agenda at the moment. It would risk provoking political unrest in a way that if it happened would be devastating for the Tories and put any incoming Labour government under an awful lot of pressure. I think will be extremely wary of the grey suits led by Jeremy Hunt, just imposing what Dan Wharton calls globalist remoners on them. And the right-wing media will tend to split between the centre right to a rah-raying, the return of orthodoxy,. The hard right who basically they're not necessarily opposed to spending cuts. Indeed, they would like a smaller state over the long term, but they just don't care about balancing the

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