Sunak Gambles With Lurch to Right as UK Moderates Flee to Labour

  • Prime minister risks undercutting reputation for pragmatism
  • Plan appeals to core Conservatives but could alienate center
Rishi Sunak.Photographer: Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
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Trailing in the polls, battered by economic headwinds and seeing businesses and the City of London flirt with the Labour Party, Rishi Sunak is rolling the dice that a shift to the right could keep his Conservatives in power.

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