Katy Balls and Fraser Nelson

‘It’s not morally right to keep borrowing at these levels’: Rishi Sunak’s plan to fix the UK economy

issue 19 December 2020
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After ten months as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak has finally decided that it’s safe to settle into 11 Downing Street. When we meet, there’s a modern work of art depicting currency signs — €, $, £, Y — being hung in the sitting room, and a portrait of Disraeli being moved to another room.

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