Tuesday 22 November 2022 08:56 AM Rishi Sunak mulls Autumn Statement fallout with Cabinet trends now
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Rishi Sunak is gathering his Cabinet today as Labour maintains a massive poll lead in the wake of the Autumn Statement.
The PM and his senior team are meeting in Downing Street as they digest the fallout from the huge package to balance the government's books last week.
Following the Chancellor's eye-watering tax raid and spending cuts - accompanied by forecasts of the worst plummet in living standards on record - a poll found Keir Starmer's party 21 points ahead.
However, the Tories were offered a glimmer of hope with the government's ratings for competence increasing sharply in the latest Redfield & WiIton Strategies research.
Ministers are desperately scrambling for ways of boosting floundering economic growth without borrowing more or fuelling inflation.
The Ukraine war forcing up energy costs has been blamed for much of the pain, as well as the aftermath of the pandemic, and government 'own goals' under Liz Truss and in the Brexit process.
