‘Operation Save Rishi’ Aims to Get Leader Through Key Vote
- Aides say defense plan, Rwanda bill mark best week in office
- But PM’s critics to scrutinize local, mayoral election results
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Rishi Sunak said this week he’s putting UK defense spending on a “war footing.” He might as well have been talking about his own position.
Allies of the British prime minister described the last few days as him entering campaign mode for a general election he must call by the end of January. A plan to tighten rules for welfare payments, ramming his flagship policy to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda through Parliament and a pledge to spend 2.5% of GDP on defense by 2030 all secured newspaper front-page coverage.