The United Kingdom’s Conservative Party starts its yearly conference on Sunday, bidding to kick-start a resurgence before a general election anticipated to take place in the year 2024 that it is right now on the way to lose. The four-day gathering in Manchester, north-west England, will be Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s first since he got the opportunity to serve as a Tory governer previous October, and approximately the last before the election.
His party has been governing since 2010 and looks increasingly beleaguered amid widespread economic problems, which first set in under Mr Sunak’s much-maligned predecessors, Ms Liz Truss and Mr Boris Johnson. The sole Labour opposition, which begins its annual conference in Liverpool, next Sunday, has launched double-digit poll leads and is constantly readying for a coming back to governing.
Mr Sunak – who must hold an election by January 2025 at the latest – will make an attempt to utilise the conference to refresh his flagging Tories and set out a broader, looking more populist, policy agenda. “This week brings on our plate an opportunity to set out our ethics to the British people, to commit ourselves to the cause and do preparations for the election next year,” he wrote in a welcome message to attendees.