Hunt Touts Questionable Growth Plans Amid Tory Identity Crisis as Public Worries Over Brexit Fallout
• Hunt adopts a "jovial" manner to promote "growth" measures that are actually not growth-oriented amidst his party's electoral challenges • There are now 3 wings of the Conservative party - moderate, right, and far-right - with no clear direction • Public more worried about dilapidated infrastructure than taxes, contrary to Tory fixation on tax cuts • Brexit has had a deleterious impact on investment and productivity that politicians fail to acknowledge • Starmer's position on the single market and customs union is "not good enough" per EU's Michel Barnier