Crazed & confused

Sunak shifts blame for 13 years of hell on to others

- LIZZY BUCHAN

THIRTEEN years of Tory rule have left public services crippled, the NHS shattered, schools crumbling and the nation bitterly divided.

But deluded Rishi Sunak will today try to shift the blame for the state of the country on to everyone else.

Instead of admitting Tory austerity and other cruel policies have left millions worse off, he is to claim it is the fault of "broken politics" and previous governments.

But Labour's Pat McFadden said last night: "We've had 13 years of Tory failure. Rishi Sunak isn't a cure for that failure, he's a product of it.

"Every day the Tories stay in power it all just carries on."

The PM is expected to tell the Tory conference in Manchester that the political system he is part of "doesn't work".

He will add: "It is an exhaustion with politics. In particular, politicians saying things, and then nothing ever changing. We've had 30 years of a system which incentivises the easy decision, not the right one, 30 years of vested interests standing in the way."

But Mr Sunak's speech comes as he is expected to announce a decision many in the North will consider the wrong one by declaring the HS2 leg from Birmingham to Manchester will go ahead, but only on existing tracks.

The new line was meant to relieve pressure on current services, which has now been thrown into doubt.

Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh said: "This is Europe's largest infrastructure project. They are turning us into an international laughing stock"

And as Mr Sunak desperately tries to cling to his role as PM as the Tories trail in the polls, the unelected leader will also accuse Labour of wanting "power for the sake of power".

Braverman's speech full of poison, again

BY DAVE BURKE

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