Stop the Boats slogan was too stark, says Rishi Sunak
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There is a phrase, a slogan, a promise that has more promises associated with former Prime Minister Rishi than anyone else.
It is “stop the boat.”
However, in his first extensive interview since leaving Downing Street, the former prime minister said he regrets saying that because it is too clear.
He admits it can’t actually be delivered.
It’s just one of the “Lessons from Downing Street” that the man hosted the worst election defeat in the Conservative Party ever said he’s learned him, and it was in a conversation on the My Political Thinking podcast that lasted over two hours.
It covers not only the mistakes he thinks he made, but also the differences about the right way to manage the economy with Boris Johnson. He hopes he can implement radical ideas; his lessons from being prime minister during the common pandemic – his attitude towards race, faith and English as Britain’s first Asian Prime Minister.
Sunak talks about his work being played in a reflective mood, saying he doesn’t have “possibly time to enjoy it in the moment, nor appreciate it because of the context I did.”
This situation is not only an economic crisis, but also a political crisis.
The Conservatives are in them The third leader in just 50 daysand there are no elected party members or the broader public.
“I have no authorization,” he said, defending the method of trying to bring warring factions together.
Otherwise, he said: “Because things may have collapsed.
He did not change his mind, hoping to deport immigrants who crossed the channel to Rwanda, saying that if there were no reforms, he would now withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
He said the court “takes new powers. There is already a task crawling … it does need reforms or we should leave.”
When I asked him if he was moving the ball away from the ball at the soaring level of net migration levels, he admitted that although he “taken very strongly to lower the level of legal immigration…I should have done so soon”.
In many ways, Sunak is the chance Prime Minister. It was October 2022 and he learned about Liz Truss Survived less time at work compared to that famous lettuceafter bowling, while TGI’s two daughters were having dinner with his two daughters.
Four days later, he entered tenth place as her successor.
He said he “feels very different…because what happened,” but driven by India’s belief in Buddhism, which he said involves “fulfilling duties”.
“You just have to focus on doing your best, doing your best, and not worrying about the rest,” he said.
“It’s a very useful concept for me…I keep going back to that. I said, ‘Look, this is my job. This is what I do here. I’m very suitable to solve the economic challenges facing our country.”
Frightened against Truss’s unfunded tax cuts or what he calls “fantasy economics” markets, reinforcing the economy into control, is his obviously most proud achievement.

But for the first time he articulated the scale of his disagreement not only with the truss, but also with Boris Johnson as prime minister.
“He and I have a completely different view of economic policy. I am a small country conservative. I believe in prioritizing, trying to limit the growth of public spending, being cautious about our borrowing so that we can cut people’s taxes … He is not too worried about these things.”
He told me that at their regular Sunday dinner on Downing Street they argued about what and couldn’t afford it.
He said his concern was inflation and interest rates rising because “when they go up, that will have a significant impact on our public finances because we will have to pay more to pay back the debt we have”.
He added: “We can’t afford to spend and borrow at this rate, which means you have to prioritize. We can’t do everything.”
Sunak insists that any plan to subsidize people’s social care costs must be paid through higher taxes.
Now he thinks “We have another comment now… I tell you, the answer is, as a country, do we think it is right to pay taxes for more generous social care policies? Yes or no? I personally think the answer is no.”
He believes that the cuts of billions of dollars from the welfare bill is a more “fundamental restructuring” of the price of increased defence spending, saying he told Johnson that the UK’s net zero obligation is putting the economy on costs.
Now he advocates giving up the legal commitment of giving zero net, a law created by Theresa May, another Conservative leader.
Both Sunak and Johnson face fixed term fines for violating lockdown rules during the COVID pandemic.
Sunak told me he had been thinking for a long time About resignation After that, but said he had a job to do, he was clearly still barely convinced that he was fined for appearing at an early work conference and produced the cake for the Prime Minister’s birthday.
What’s even more interesting is the lessons he learned from that period.
He told me that we should all be treated more like adults and the public should tell me: “Even scientists themselves aren’t like this, otherwise they don’t know 100% of the time it’s the right thing to do”.
The long-term negative consequences of the lockdown measure should be shedded, because he said, “We have seen the impact it has on school kids everywhere and its impact on learning. And we may not be talking about as much as we did at the time.”
Sunak is proud to be the first British Asian Prime Minister, whose grandfather (when he was born in poverty in the Indian village) calls for an old friend to call for an old friend at home, his first visit to Westminster in his eyes.
He was also angry at being like a popular podcast, who recently announced: “He is a brown Hindus; his English way.”
“I’m English of course, born here, raised here,” he said.
“In this definition, even if you are playing for England, you can’t speak English, let alone support them…I really think it’s ridiculous.”
It’s someone who is proud of his roots, ready to admit his mistakes, but who wants to know if his rise happened before the country knew him and can see beyond the super conservative Conservative Party, who is the fifth Conservative leader in six years.
“It’s a lonely job because it’s only 100% on you,” he said.
Many are convinced that he will call an election soon for a new life in California.
He said nonsense, he lives here because it is home and does have just established a charitable foundation named after the Yorkshire constituency-Richmond Project, and he is still proud to represent the council.