No expense is spared as the new prime minister promises something for every voter
Downing Street has attempted to claim that an economic ideology lies behind these announcements, labelling Mr Johnson’s promise of both tax cuts and higher spending as “boosterism” . He has promised £3.6bn for 100 poor towns, £2.1bn for the National Health Service and £1.1bn for hiring new police officers. He has voiced support for new railways to join up the north which could cost a whopping £39bn.
He has moved quickly to cauterise issues that may harm the Conservatives on the doorstep. The main teachers’ union spent £325,000 at the last election, more than both theIndependence Party and the Greens, in a successful campaign for more education funding. Mr Johnson has promised to reverse recent school cuts by 2022-23. Health care is one of the few policy areas where the public still trusts Labour more than the Tories.
Matt Hancock, the health secretary and an enthusiastic convert to Mr Johnson’s cause, promised he would “make sure that money gets to the front line”, which in this case conveniently includes hospitals in marginal constituencies such as Boston, Stoke and Truro. Although Mr Johnson has promised an additional 20,000 police officers, there will be no proportional increase in the staff who work alongside them, like data analysts or those who work in the courts.
Many of these announcements then turn out to be less impressive than the headline figure would suggest. As Sally Gainsbury of the Nuffield Trust, a think-tank, has pointed out, £1bn of the £2.1bn announced for thehad already been promised . Likewise, half of the fund for poor towns had been set aside by Theresa May, Mr Johnson’s predecessor. Solutions for knottier problems remain in development. An answer to the social-care funding crisis is expected in the autumn.
Most of the money will be spent over the next few years, meaning it will almost certainly be dependent on a successful re-election campaign. In the next few months Brexit is likely to take up the government’s attention, and the Conservatives’ perilous parliamentary position means they will struggle to get much else done. Facing similar obstacles, Mrs May also came to power with bold ambitions to reform the British state.
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