2) Keep your team around you when it gets tough<\/p>\n
Look, just don\u2019t do what I did here.<\/p>\n
After unveiling a debt-funded, tax-cutting mini-budget combined with huge government energy subsidies which hadn\u2019t been scrutinized by the U.K.\u2019s official public spending watchdog, the tofu-eating wokerati in the markets got the jitters (more on why it wasn\u2019t my fault later). Like a fool, I threw my top finance minister overboard.<\/p>\n
Oh, Kwasi Kwarteng \u2014 how I loved your challenge to the market orthodoxy. So much so that I sacked you brutally after hauling you back from a trip to Washington D.C. No hard feelings!<\/p>\n
Finally free of the dude who had done exactly what I asked him to do, I listened to the dullards in my party and hauled in a total deep state loser called Jeremy Hunt. The guy then went on TV and reversed essentially all of my agenda<\/a>. Did it save me? Yeah, for about three days.<\/p>\n 3) Don\u2019t hold a party conference right in the middle of the chaos<\/p>\n If you sense there\u2019s a plot against you (and believe me, there is ALWAYS a plot against you) it\u2019s probably not a good idea to give your critics a chance to gather in one place, get drunk, and \u2026 plot against you.<\/p>\n With markets still reeling, I went ahead with Conservative Party conference \u2014 normally a total blast, honest. And how did my ungrateful MPs thank me? They publicly pressured me to make more changes, sniped about me to the newspapers and attacked my comms strategy as \u201cshit.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2) Keep your team around you when it gets tough Look, just don\u2019t do what I did here.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1194,2825,32,33,295,35,474,2826,475,2827,2828,2441,2829,12,48,479,1200,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-5055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-budget","10":"tag-debt","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-elections","13":"tag-elon-musk","14":"tag-energy","15":"tag-finance","16":"tag-golf","17":"tag-imports","18":"tag-jeremy-hunt","19":"tag-kwasi-kwarteng","20":"tag-markets","21":"tag-matt-honeycombe-foster","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-rights","24":"tag-tariffs","25":"tag-tax","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114302142905027967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}