UK: Tory MPs on election alert as Sunak 'resets' campaign strategy
Conservative MPs were put on alert for an autumn election as Rishi Sunak reset his campaign strategy to warn voters they would be less safe with Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister.
The Prime Minister acknowledged that his new pitch to voters amounted to “better the devil you know” as he warned the world was facing “one of the most dangerous periods we’ve ever known”, and that Labour’s refusal to match his commitment to spend 2.5 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence by 2030 sent the wrong message.
It marks another change of course for the Prime Minister, who as recently as October argued he was the “change” candidate, that Tory MPs said appeared to provide the “soft framing” for an election in October or November.
One Tory-ex minister suggested Sunak had “reset” his strategy and was “drawing a line under the local elections”, which were disastrous for the party.
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