Rishi Sunak switches priorities to sealing up holes in a sinking ship
by Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor from World news | The Guardian on (#666TV)
Ideas for growth shelved as PM grasps managing economic crisis, NHS and small boat crossings are his survival route
When Rishi Sunak was chancellor, Treasury aides and ministers said he was deeply entrenched in the detail, able to refer to spreadsheets or reports by chapter number by heart. The job of prime minister is a very different one, which his closest aides in No 10 say he is starting to understand means choosing very specific priorities.
Sunak has suggested to MPs who have seen him recently that he has three main priorities for his premiership: stabilising the economy, tackling small boat crossings in the Channel, and easing the pressures on the NHS.
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