health<\/a> care system and \u201crestore the integrity back into politics\u201d after years of scandals under former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.<\/p>\n\n\n\nEasier said than done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe things that happened before I was prime minister, I can\u2019t do anything about,\u201d Sunak told a group of health workers this week. \u201cWhat I think you can hold me to account for is how I deal with the things that arise on my watch.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jill Rutter, a senior fellow at the Institute for Government think tank, said Sunak had succeeded in overcoming the impression that the U.K. \u201chad a completely lunatic government.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou would chalk that up as the first thing that he had on his to-do list,\u201d she said. \u201cOtherwise, it\u2019s slightly hard to see concrete achievements.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sunak is a former U.K. Treasury chief, and his top priority has been the country’s economic malaise. Gross domestic product remains smaller than it was before the coronavirus pandemic, and the International Monetary Fund forecast this week that the U.K. will be the only major economy to contract this year, shrinking by 0.6%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sunak blames global forces \u2014 disruption from the pandemic and Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. Critics say the elephant in the room is Brexit, which has led to a sharp reduction in trade between the U.K. and the European Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sunak, a longtime advocate of Britain\u2019s departure from the bloc, insisted Wednesday that the cost-of-living crisis had \u201cnothing to do with Brexit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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