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Rishi Sunak Has the Biggest New Year’s Hangover
The prime minister may want to talk about resolutions, but last year's turmoil hasn't disappeared.
First things first.
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Rishi Sunak’s critics charge he doesn’t have answers for the big problems facing the UK, from costly strikes to a hobbled health care system. His supporters worry he isn’t a visionary who can inspire voters the way Boris Johnson could.
The prime minister’s first speech of the year on Wednesday tried hard to address both sets of concerns and ended up pleasing nobody. Where Sunak was most interesting, his ideas were too unformed; where he attempted to be more specific, he was least compelling.