Rishi Sunak: The Most Right Wing PM Since Thatcher?

If we dive deeper into his policies and look more critically at how he has acted in Number 10, it becomes obvious that Sunak may well be the most right wing Prime Minister this country has had since Margaret Thatcher.

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[Colinop]

that Truss cut "I am a fighter" to "I am resigning" had me laughing so hard

[Aceshigh]

I am a fighter and not a quitter 💪
I am resigning 👋

[michaeltnk]

He certainly is one of the conservative PMs of all time

[hosseinramez]

I think truss's time in office should be an official unit of measurement😂

[TillBarkley]

1:35 - 1:49
10/10 perfect representation of how that went 😂

[limer]

the "I am a fighter, not a quitter - I am resigning" bit never gets old.

[CrobatmanIamthenight]

and no one even voted in sunak, we need a general election

[thastayapongsak]

The most right wing PM ever, and conservatives are still saying he's not doing enough.

[jbshiva]

Rishi Sunak is going more rightwing, not to try and win reelection but to try and hold the Conservative Party together enough that they might survive the election with at least 100+ seats.

[JJMcCullough]

I feel like in class-conscious Britain, the fact that Rishi is so rich also makes him come off as more culturally right wing than some of his predecessors.

[romitkumar]

One thing that these so-called "libertarians" refuse to acknowledge is that the libertarian position would be less border controls, more rights of people over their own body (abortion and LGBTQ+), less surveillance, less government regulation of housing construction, less intrusion of privacy and tapping of phones/social media apps, and less meddling in the moral lives of the people.

Libertarianism is just as much a political and social ideology as it is an economic one, and reducing trade barriers is just as important to libertarianism as reducing border controls. Right to freedom of movement is a human right after all

[Jimmy_Jones]

"I am a fighter not a quitter.... I am resigning". 😂

[Pemmont]

The world's on fire and Sunak's response is to dive head-first into *more* fossil fuels.

We're doomed.

[jackbelmonte]

In all fairness, Sunak hasn’t launched airstrikes or invaded anyone as of yet so he’s actually rather moderate by British PM standards 😂

[carlosmiguelteixeiraott]

I think rather than Truss it would have been more interesting to compare him with Boris, who I think was more right-wing than him still, even with a number of Sunak policies just being continuations on Boris' proposals.

[jonathananderson]

He may have just beaten Thatcher. At least her nonsense kind of made sense, in a brutally inhuman way. However when our pm essentially says f... The world, after arriving in a private jet we have stooped low indeed. God help us 😢

[adurcarret]

The elephant in the room in this video is that there’s no definition of “right wing”.
The authors recognise that there are different conflicting ideologies in the Conservative Party (some argue for and against greater economic freedom for instance). Which one is the right wing one?
Related to this, the meaning of “right wing” has changed deeply over the last 50 years, how does it make sense that someone is more right wing that Thatcher? What is the criteria?

[A]

"I am a fighter not a quitter" and right after that "I am resigning" was so funny. :'D Great edit.

[Cubus-zapasowy]

Would anything Sunak says on world view issues be opposed by Cameron, May, or Johnson? No. Back then no one even started claiming that there are 73 genders.

Sunak is not right wing. It's the UK that has gone so far left in last years that he seems right wing.

In France or Italy he would be center at best.

[jakkuwolfinsomnia]

“I am a fighter not a quitter!”
Bully: “I’m gonna put some dirt in your eye”
“I am resigning” ✍️