Dear John

Neither Truss nor Sunak offers much hope on cost of living

Johnson is AWOL and both contenders for the top job are part of this government’s failure to act.

This Government is sleep-walking the country into a nightmare. With spiralling costs piling on ordinary people, now is the time for serious action. Action that neither our PM nor the potential PMs-in-waiting seem ready to take. 

It is a bleak state of affairs, and what makes it even bleaker is that where they could be taking urgent action on the fundamental crisis affecting us all, they are instead expending their energies on an ideological, authoritarian agenda. 

If you haven’t yet read our blog on the democracy-deleting Bills this Government is trying to push through, take a look now.

Whoever the next Prime Minister is, and whatever shape their Cabinet takes, it is clear they committed to continuing with legislation which breaks international law (like the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill), which weakens your rights (like the Bill of Rights Bill) and which clamps down on your right to freedom of expression (the Public Order Bill). 

Instead of dealing with the important stuff and helping alleviate the stresses pressing on us all, the Government looks set to expend huge amounts of energy and time on systematically pulling apart and replacing the democratic traditions and history of our country.

As conversations about the cost of living dominate headlines, the Government may start to find it easier to sneak through some of this troublesome legislation while the focus is elsewhere. 

So we have to remain vigilant, and call the Government out on its extraordinary decision to carry on stifling our freedoms while we remain in a crisis.

Best wishes,

Maheen Behrana

Senior Campaigns and Policy Officer, Best for Britain